On this (temporarily) website, some background knowledge about Automatic Speech Recognition and more specifically about OpenAI's Whisper, is given. Moreover, we will explain what ASR/Whisperit is and how you can use it.

The original website (https://speechandtech.org) was created in 2020 by a group of German, Italian and Dutch experts interested in AI and Speech Data/Processing, with very different backgrounds - Oral History, Computational Linguistics, Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics and Phonology. This may vary from very basic technologies, such as the conversion of recorded speech from analogue to digital, or more elaborate ones, such as ASR applied to automatically generate transcripts of the spoken content. 

We first offer some basic information about the epistemological focus of research domains that deal with speech data. This is followed by an explanation of relevant technologies and related tools that researchers can use. Finally, we offer the visitors the possibility to download Windows and Apples versions of some relevant software.

Last but not least, you can access the first concrete result of our efforts: The Transcription Portal, an open source service for automatic transcription in for exmple English, German, Dutch and Italian (and other languages).

This website is a limited version of the original website: https://speechandtech.org. That site closed on 01-08-2026 because the information can be found on various places and "we" become a bit older :-) For questions, please mail to: arjan@brs85.nl