whisper-large-v3

Coming soon
OpenAI

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.

Modality

Chat

Region

US

Published

Jul 21, 2026

Use it via the API

whisper-large-v3 works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK — point the base URL at https://preprod-backend.sovereigneg.com/v1 and use your SovereignEG API key.

Run inference

OpenAI-compatible — POST /v1/chat/completions — drop-in for any OpenAI SDK.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://preprod-backend.sovereigneg.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="whisper-large-v3",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "What are some fun things to do in Cairo?"}
    ],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Frequently asked questions

Where is whisper-large-v3 hosted?

whisper-large-v3 is served from US (US-hosted inference).

How do I use whisper-large-v3 via the API?

whisper-large-v3 is available through the OpenAI-compatible SovereignEG API: point your SDK's base URL at https://preprod-backend.sovereigneg.com/v1 and call /v1/chat/completions with model "whisper-large-v3" and your API key.