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Whisper

Rankedopen-source
62.4/100 · #99 overall

Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

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Product quality12.5/ 25
provisional
Traction15.4/ 25
verified
Value15/ 15
verified
Reliability / freshness7/ 10
verified

Bio

Pricing typeopen-source
Websitehttps://openai.com/index/whisper/
GitHubopenai/whisper · 110,669 ★
HN stories (12 mo)1
Added2026-10-16

Score breakdown

ComponentPointsEvidence
Traction verified
15.4/251 HN stories linking to it (12 mo), pctl 52% in all tools; 110,669 GitHub stars, pctl 72% in all open-source tools; blended 50/50
Momentum provisional
7.5/15Needs 30 days of score history; neutral midpoint
Product quality provisional
12.5/25Checklist not verifiable (site blocks automated checks); neutral midpoint
Value verified
15/15Open-source repo openai/whisper
Reliability / freshness verified
7/10Homepage check 2026-10-16: HTTP 403 (responds but blocks automated checks)
Editor / community rating provisional
5/10No ratings yet; neutral 5/10

Data checked 2026-10-16. Think this is wrong? Dispute a score.