Working with Whisper
Five transcription variants sit here. Whisper is the multilingual baseline; Wizper and Wizper with Timestamp add speech recognition and translation on Whisper v3 with word-level timings; Whisper Diarization runs Large V3 Turbo with speaker labels and sentence-level timestamps; and Incredibly Fast Whisper transcribes 150 minutes of audio in about 100 seconds.
When to choose Whisper
Choose Whisper when you need proven multilingual transcription with timestamps. Deepgram Nova-3 is the alternative with built-in summarisation and intent analysis; xAI Speech-to-Text covers 25 languages with diarization.
Choosing between the variants
Incredibly Fast Whisper is the one for long archives. Whisper Diarization is for conversations where who spoke matters. Wizper with Timestamp gives precise word-level timings for subtitles, and plain Whisper is the simple baseline.
About Whisper
- Which variant handles a two-hour recording best?
- Incredibly Fast Whisper — it is benchmarked at roughly 150 minutes of audio in 100 seconds.
- Which variant identifies speakers?
- Whisper Diarization, running Large V3 Turbo, returns speaker labels alongside word- and sentence-level timestamps.
- Can Whisper translate as well as transcribe?
- The Wizper variants, built on Whisper v3, do multilingual speech recognition and translation rather than transcription alone.