Whisper Turbo (web)

Name: Whisper Turbo (web)
Author: Fleek HQ / community

by Fleek HQ / community

Faster on-device Whisper in the browser using a quantized turbo build.

TL;DR

Faster on-device Whisper in the browser using a quantized turbo build.

Best for privacy-first transcription with 10x speedup over plain Transformers.js Whisper. Pricing: free.

What it is

Whisper Turbo is a community project shipping a quantized Whisper-large running on WebGPU in a single browser tab. Drop a file, watch it transcribe locally with no upload.

Best for: Privacy-first transcription with 10x speedup over plain Transformers.js Whisper.
Watch out for: Browser GPU support required; first-load downloads model weights.

Install / use

open https://whisper-turbo.com/

Features

Speaker diarization	No
Word-level timestamps	Yes
Streaming / real-time	No
Languages supported	99
HIPAA eligible	No

Whisper Turbo (web) vs Whipscribe

Feature	Whisper Turbo (web)	Whipscribe
Category	Products	Transcription APIs
Pricing	free	free beta
Speaker diarization	No	Yes
Word timestamps	Yes	Yes
Streaming	No	No
Languages	99	99
Platforms	Web (Chrome/Edge)	Web, API, MCP

Alternatives to Whisper Turbo (web)

Otter.ai

Meeting-bot transcription product for Zoom/Meet/Teams.

free / from $10/mo

Rev

Human + AI transcription, highest accuracy tier on the market.

AI from $0.25/min · human from $1.50/min

Descript

Audio/video editor that treats the transcript as the timeline — different product category.

free / from $12/mo

Whipscribe is a managed faster-whisper + whisperX service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.