Whisper
Whisper is OpenAI's general-purpose speech recognition model, trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio and able to transcribe speech, translate it to English, and identify languages as a single multitask model.
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index.ts
import { experimental_transcribe as transcribe } from 'ai';import { gateway } from '@ai-sdk/gateway';import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
const result = await transcribe({ model: gateway.transcriptionModel('openai/whisper-1'), audio: await readFile('audio.mp3'),});More models by OpenAI
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| 1.1M | 3.6s | 90tps | $5/M | $30/M | Read: $0.5/M Write: $6.25/M | $10/K + input costs | +4 |   | 07/09/2026 | |||
| 1.1M | 0.9s | 161tps | $1/M | $6/M | Read: $0.1/M Write: $1.25/M | $10/K + input costs | +4 | | 07/09/2026 | |||
| 1M | 0.5s | 136tps | $5/M | $30/M | Read: $0.5/M Write: — | $10/K + input costs | +4 |  | 04/24/2026 | |||
| 400K | 1.0s | 139tps | $0.75/M | $4.50/M | Read:$0.07/M Write:— | $10/K + input costs | +4 | | 03/17/2026 | |||
| 1.1M | 3.0s | 91tps | $2.50/M | $15/M | Read: $0.25/M Write: — | $10/K + input costs | +4 | | 03/05/2026 | |||
| 400K | 3.9s | 161tps | $0.25/M | $2/M | Read:$0.03/M Write:— | $14/K + input costs | +4 | | 08/07/2025 |