Understanding the Core Mechanisms of Whisper
Welcome to Chapter 2 of our journey to mastering Whisper’s groundbreaking speech recognition capabilities. In the previous chapter, we explored the value propositions of production-grade speech recognition and why Whisper marks a pivotal advancement in conversational AI.
Now, it’s time to demystify the technology under the hood. This chapter offers a comprehensive yet accessible overview of Whisper’s technical architecture and functions. Consider it your guidebook for navigating the ASR landscape as we dismantle Whisper piece by piece.
Our goals for this chapter are threefold:
- Develop literacy in the critical components of modern ASR systems, including Whisper’s unique approach. We’ll survey the techniques and data flows fueling today’s speech recognition.
- Cultivate intuition around the systemic interactions that enable translating speech into text and downstream natural language...