OpenVINO Notebooks

by Intel

Reference notebooks including Whisper + SeamlessM4T export.

TL;DR

Reference notebooks including Whisper + SeamlessM4T export.

Best for step-by-step OpenVINO recipes for ASR. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

Jupyter notebooks for OpenVINO's tutorial library. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Step-by-step OpenVINO recipes for ASR.
Watch out for: Examples evolve with each OpenVINO release.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino_notebooks

Features

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

OpenVINO Notebooks vs Whipscribe

FeatureOpenVINO NotebooksWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages9999
PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsWeb, API, MCP

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