Faroese speech-to-text
Whisper Large v3 accepts language=fo, but there is no public Faroese test set we could score it on, so we cannot tell you how well it works. Low-resource languages are where our measured results are weakest; test on your own audio before you rely on it.
Quickstart
The request is the OpenAI transcription request with a different base URL. language is optional.
curl https://api.inferenceapis.com/v1/audio/transcriptions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $INFERENCE_API_KEY" \
-F "model=openai/whisper-large-v3" \
-F "language=fo" \
-F "file=@recording.mp3" \
-F "response_format=verbose_json"import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.inferenceapis.com/v1", api_key=os.environ["INFERENCE_API_KEY"])
with open("recording.mp3", "rb") as f:
r = client.audio.transcriptions.create(model="openai/whisper-large-v3", file=f, language="fo", response_format="verbose_json")
print(r.text)Subtitles and timestamps
response_format=srt or vtt returns a subtitle file with cues of up to two lines, broken at sentence ends and pauses. verbose_json with timestamp_granularities[]=word returns a start and end time for every word if you want to build your own.
Cost
$0.002 per minute of audio on either model: $0.12 for an hour, $12 for a hundred hours. Duration is measured from the file you upload. There is no daily cap on minutes and no subscription; enough to run your own Faroese test.
FAQ
Can it translate Faroese speech to English?
The API returns Faroese text. For English, transcribe first and translate the text with a chat model on the same key.