# xenova/whisper-web

ML-powered speech recognition directly in your browser

Repository: https://github.com/xenova/whisper-web
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/whisper-web
Homepage: https://hf.co/spaces/Xenova/whisper-web
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: javascript, transformers, whisper
Last push: 2024-10-01T11:32:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 30/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 90
- inputs: {"age_days": 1265, "days_push": 701, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3338, forks 427 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:56.832730+00:00)

## What it is
A browser-based speech recognition app that runs OpenAI's Whisper models entirely client-side using Transformers.js. It transcribes audio without any server-side processing, with an experimental WebGPU branch for GPU acceleration.

## Use cases
- transcribe audio recordings in the browser
- run whisper speech-to-text locally without a server
- private offline speech recognition
- add subtitles to audio files client-side
- demo in-browser machine learning transcription

## When to choose
- you need privacy-preserving transcription with no audio leaving the device
- you want a zero-backend, browser-only speech-to-text demo or app
- you're showcasing Transformers.js / WebGPU capabilities

## When to avoid
- you need high-accuracy or long-audio production transcription at scale
- you need server-side batch processing or API integration
- you need broad browser compatibility including older Firefox versions

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: speech-recognition, machine-learning, audio-processing
- domain: speech-processing, artificial-intelligence, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: whisper, transformersjs, client-side-ml, transcription, webgpu, vite, web-server, javascript

## Member repositories
- xenova/whisper-web (main) score 30

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.832730+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:41:06.335173+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/xenova/whisper-web (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.832730+00:00, sha a18d002b13a4)
  - homepage: https://hf.co/spaces/Xenova/whisper-web (fetched 2026-08-29T09:34:35.436492+00:00, sha 1bcd4b9cdadc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.