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In these past few years, progressions in artificial intelligence software’s ability to understand language has enabled the future of transcription services to really come alive. ChatGPT has remained in the spotlight since being available to the public, being a hugely popular language model chatbot. But can ChatGPT transcribe audio? The latest version is powered by the multimodal model (GPT-4), and is by far the most advanced ChatGPT we’ve seen yet. With its list of language-based capabilities continuing to grow with each update, you might be wondering if ChatGPT can transcribe audio.
Can ChatGPT transcribe audio?
Yes, ChatGPT can in fact transcribe audio with a Speech to Text function that is powered by OpenAI’s Whisper API.
After a user uploads an audio file, ChatGPT will put this file through a speech recognition algorithm, which will process the speech and create a corresponding text output. Currently, the Whisper API supports the following file types: mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, and webm. However, file uploads are presently restricted to 25 MB.
When you input prompts to OpenAI’s Whisper API, you get user-friendly speech-to-text functionality inside your own app! This is separate from the ChatGPT API. In addition, OpenAI Whisper comes with dialects and language support for Arabic, Greek, Polish, Swahili, Hindi, Malay, Tagalog, Hebrew, Marathi, Urdu, Kannada, and Welsh.
ChatGPT was trained on huge amounts of speech data. Therefore, ChatGPT Speech to Text is capable of understanding and transcribing over 50 languages to industry-standard benchmarks. Furthermore, it can translate and transcribe audio files from many languages into English.
You can use the speech to text function through ChatGPT on your PC or laptop. In addition, you can now access these features on the ChatGPT app for IOS. This makes the convenience and possibilities of speech to text transcription readily available. OpenAI continues to evolve the ways in which we view transcription and how it can be done efficiently.
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How accurate is ChatGPT Speech to Text?
ChatGPT is infamous for its outstanding capabilities in natural language processing (NLP). However, no speech to text transcription tool will ever hit the one hundred percent accuracy mark. As a result, we can expect relatively high levels of accuracy. Despite this, there are some natural limitations to this Whisper API including the quality of the audio file, the diction and pronunciation, and any interfering background noise.
You can further use ChatGPT to help pull apart your transcription to create summaries, key points, and even related topics.
What is a multimodal AI?
Multimodal AI is artificial intelligence that can interpret more than one type of media – that is text, audio, image, and or video.
Large language models (LLMs) are, by themselves, text-based. ChatGPT exhibits multimodality in its ability to receive audio, and then output text based on the content of that audio. There are so many steps in between, standing on the shoulders of previous technological achievements. Siri, Cortana, Hey Google or Alexa have perfected turning your voice into text data. Producing original artworks and music, poems and videos however, is something no one yet claims to master.
Final Thoughts
If you found yourself wondering if you can use ChatGPT to transcribe audio files, then the answer is yes. Furthermore, We can expect greater accuracy and functionality of natural language processing as the model continues to develop, and to see how it can be used in a variety of industries from healthcare, education, and finance.
If you’re interested in exploring other options, some other AI-based transcription tools that have caught the attention of users recently include Otter AI, and alternatively Trint.