Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.

This is my tentative workflow for cleaning-up poor audio using the NVIDIA Maxine Windows Audio Effects SDK.

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Audio Processing

Convert to 8kHz, single-channel PCM

1ffmpeg -i "input.mp3" -ar 8000 -ac 1 output.wav

Convert to 16kHz, single-channel PCM

1ffmpeg -i "input.mp3" -ar 16000 …