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Articles about whispers, speech-to-text, and open-source software.
Can whisper.cpp translate to other languages besides English?
2 min readYou can´t use whisper.cpp to translate directly into languages other than English but you can use a two-step workflow to translate audio into a non-English language.
- whisper.cpp
- translation
Why Accents and Jargon Trip Up Speech Recognition
2 min readA beginner's look at why non-native accents and domain-specific vocabulary cause more transcription errors than clean, neutral speech.
- accents
- jargon
- fundamentals
Reducing Jargon Errors with Prompts, Vocabulary Hints, and Post-Processing
2 min readPractical techniques to help whisper.cpp correctly recognize domain-specific terms, acronyms, and product names.
- accents
- jargon
- guide
Code-Switching and Heavy Accents: The Hard Cases for whisper.cpp
2 min readHow whisper.cpp's language detection behaves with code-switched, multi-accent speech, and strategies for the toughest real-world audio.
- accents
- advanced
- multilingual
Accessibility and Subtitles: Why Captions Are More Than a Nice-to-Have
2 min readHow accurate, well-timed captions generated by whisper.cpp make video content accessible and legally compliant.
- accessibility
- subtitles
- fundamentals
A Practical Video-to-Captions Workflow with whisper.cpp
2 min readExtract audio from video, generate SRT/VTT captions, and reformat them to meet accessibility line-length and timing guidelines.
- accessibility
- subtitles
- guide
Advanced Accessibility: Multi-Language Tracks, Audio Descriptions, and Sync QA
2 min readGoing beyond basic captions — multi-language subtitle tracks, audio description workflows, and catching caption-video drift automatically.
- accessibility
- subtitles
- advanced
Acoustic Models vs. Language Models: The Two Halves of Speech Recognition
2 min readA beginner-friendly explanation of the two neural components that work together inside whisper.cpp to turn sound into text.
- acoustic-model
- language-model
- fundamentals
Diagnosing Acoustic vs. Language Model Errors in Practice
2 min readHow to tell whether a bad transcript is an acoustic problem or a language-model problem, and what to change in each case.
- acoustic-model
- language-model
- guide
Inside an End-to-End Transformer: How Whisper Fuses Acoustic and Language Modeling
2 min readA deep dive into why Whisper's single transformer architecture blurs the historical line between acoustic and language models.
- acoustic-model
- language-model
- advanced
- transformers
What Is Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)?
2 min readA plain-language introduction to ASR — how machines turn spoken audio into text, and why whisper.cpp makes it easy to run locally.
- asr
- whisper.cpp
- fundamentals
Building a Practical ASR Pipeline with whisper.cpp
3 min readStep-by-step guide to picking a model, converting audio, and wiring whisper.cpp into a repeatable transcription pipeline.
- asr
- whisper.cpp
- guide