It’s an implementation of a speak to text software. Currently the best open source one, if not the best.

Particularly you can talk to it with a “international” English accent and it will work. Or French or Spanish or Norwegian… and it will transcribe English.

So could you use it to translate audio of a foreign language into english text?

Yes.

And OpenAI has a hosted version for just that https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text/quick...

Yes. According to the OpenAI Whisper repo [0], when you use the 'whisper' command line tool:

"Adding --task translate will translate the speech into English."

I tried translating a conference with a German speaker. The transcription was superb, but the translation no so much.

[0] https://github.com/openai/whisper

Ah I love the future. Thank you!

Thanks for providing the missing info!

Yes, downvote a question that should've been answered by the title. Pathetic.