CrisperWhisper

by Nyra Health

Whisper retrained for medical / clinical transcription accuracy.

TL;DR

Whisper retrained for medical / clinical transcription accuracy.

Best for clinical note transcription where verbatim disfluencies matter. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
—
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

Open Whisper fine-tune optimized for verbatim word-by-word output with disfluencies preserved. CC-BY-NC-4.0 — research/non-commercial only.

Best for: Clinical note transcription where verbatim disfluencies matter.
Watch out for: Research weights; check license before deploying in HIPAA-regulated systems.

Install / use

pip install transformers

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported99
HIPAA eligibleNo

CrisperWhisper vs Whipscribe

FeatureCrisperWhisperWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages9999
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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