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OpenAI Whisper Hackathon

The Future of Speech Recognition

Join us for a hackathon where we will be using OpenAI Whisper to create innovative solutions! Whisper is a neural net that has been trained to approach human level robustness and accuracy for English speech recognition. We will be using this tool to create applications that can transcribe in multiple languages, as well as translate from those languages into English. This will be a great opportunity for you to learn more about speech processing and to create some useful applications!

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OpenAI Whisper

Machine learning and artificial intelligence still face challenges when it comes to speech recognition. With OpenAI Whisper, we are one step closer to resolving this problem.

: Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.
: This makes it possible to approach human level robustness and accuracy in English speech recognition. It is robust to accents, background noise, and technical language.
: It also enables transcription in multiple languages, as well as translation from those languages into English. The Whisper architecture is a simple end-to-end approach, implemented as an encoder-decoder Transformer.

The Challenge

The challenge for this hackathon is to create an innovative solution with OpenAI Whisper.

Plus points if you incorporate other bonus technologies like GPT-3 and Codex . With Whisper's high accuracy and ease of use, we want to see what applications you can create using voice interfaces

Whisper Hackathon details

🗓️ Where and when

The hackathon starts on October 14th and ends on October 16th. Over the weekend, you'll have the opportunity to learn from lablab experts during workshops, keynotes, and mentoring sessions. The hackathon will take place on the lablab.ai platform.

🦸🏼‍♂️ Who should participate?

Previous experience in AI is not required but welcomed. While many participants are industry experts, we also welcome people with other types of domain knowledge that want to understand & explore how AI can be used in their fields.

🛠️ How to participate in the hackathon

The hackathon will take place online on lablab.ai platform and lablab.ai Discord Server. Please register for both in order to participate. To participate click the "Enroll" button at the bottom of the page and read our Hackathon Guidelines.

🔗 Useful links for the hackathon

For general Hackathon information see our Hackathon Guidelines. To learn more about Whisper, see the Whisper documentation. To learn more about GPT-3, see the GPT-3 documentation. To learn more about Codex, see the Codex documentation.

Speakers, Mentors and Organizers

Mentor
Mathias Asberg
Founder New Native
Speaker
Paweł Czech
Founder New Native
Speaker
Alexander Molak
ML Researcher (R&D) at IRONSCALES
Speaker
Rudradeb Mitra
Founder Omdena
Organizer
Anastasiia Strakhova
Community Manager at New Native
Organizer
Olesia Zinchenko
Social Media Manager at New Native

Hackathon FAQ

Who can join the Hackathon?

We welcome domain experts from all industries, not just AI or tech. Successful AI solutions require a combination of technical expertise and domain knowledge. Coding experience is recommended.

Do I need a team?

You are welcome to join as a team or solo. If solo, we still encourage you to look for a team before the event, but ultimately it is your choice. We recommend you to join the Deep Learning Labs Discord channel: https://discord.gg/gCuBwBB35k and posting in the #looking-for-team channel to get to know your potential future team members.

Do I need a Github account?

It is recommended. At least one team member should have a Github account. You can create one for free if you don't already have one.

I have other questions.

Feel free to reach us on social media, or through our Discord channel.

Event Schedule

To be announced