Summary

In this final chapter, we explored the future of ASR and the exciting advancements shaping the landscape by focusing on OpenAI’s groundbreaking Whisper model. We examined ongoing efforts to enhance Whisper’s performance, including improving accuracy and robustness, expanding language support, achieving better punctuation and speaker diarization, and accelerating performance for real-time capabilities. Additionally, we delved into the critical ethical considerations and responsible AI practices crucial for developing and deploying ASR technologies, ensuring that these powerful tools benefit society while respecting individual rights and promoting fairness.

This chapter delved into cutting-edge techniques and strategies that can be used to enhance Whisper’s performance, including increasing training data, fine-tuning for specific domains, and optimizing model architecture. We investigated approaches for making ASR more inclusive by collecting diverse datasets...