OLMoASR
What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition?
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond just releasing model weights, AI2 has published training data identifiers, filtering steps, training recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually transparent move in the ASR space. This makes OLMoASR one…