# OpenAI Whisper Online — Free, No Install | Make AI Voice

Source page: https://www.makeaivoice.com/whisper-online

> Run OpenAI Whisper online — no Python, no GPU, no install. Upload audio or video, get a Whisper large-v3-turbo transcript with timestamps. Free.

Plain-text version of this page for AI assistants and readers. Site overview: https://www.makeaivoice.com/llms.txt
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# OpenAI Whisper Online

Use Whisper large-v3-turbo in your browser — no Python, no GPU, no command line. Upload a file, get timestamped text and SRT subtitles.

Translate to English

## Which Whisper model is this?

Transcription runs on OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo, hosted on Cloudflare's GPUs. It's the same model you'd run locally with `whisper --model turbo`, without installing anything or waiting for a GPU queue.
Voice activity detection is on, so long silences are skipped instead of producing the made-up lines Whisper is known for on quiet audio.

## About Whisper's translate mode

The large-v3-turbo model was trained for transcription only — its built-in translate task doesn't work (it returns the original language). So when you tick Translate to English, we transcribe with Whisper first and then translate each timed line with a separate language model. Timestamps stay exactly where Whisper put them.

## Whisper online vs. running it yourself

Running Whisper locally is great if you have a recent GPU and are comfortable with Python and ffmpeg. This page is for everyone else — and for when you just need one file done. Your audio isn't stored, and there's nothing to sign up for on shorter files.

## OpenAI Whisper Online FAQ

### Is this the official OpenAI Whisper?
It's OpenAI's open-source Whisper large-v3-turbo model (MIT-licensed), run by us. We're not affiliated with OpenAI; the official source is on GitHub.

### Can I choose tiny, base, small or medium?
No — we only run large-v3-turbo, which is faster than large-v3 with nearly the same accuracy. Smaller models would only be less accurate.

### Does it support word-level timestamps?
You get phrase-level timestamps (one line per spoken phrase), which is what SRT and VTT subtitles use.

### Is it really free without signing up?
Yes. Without an account you can transcribe files up to 10 minutes, 3 files a day. A free account gives you 120 free minutes every month and files up to 30 minutes. After the free minutes, transcription uses 1 credit per 5 minutes of audio, and paid plans allow files up to 60 minutes.

### Do you keep my recording or transcript?
No. Your file is converted in your browser and sent in short pieces for transcription; we don't store the audio or the text. Download your transcript before closing the page.

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