Whisper by OpenAI is a cutting-edge Transformer-based model that excels in multiple speech processing tasks including multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, and spoken language identification. Leveraging a vast and varied training dataset, Whisper offers impressive performance even in zero-shot scenarios, meaning it can understand and translate languages without specific tuning. The model processes input audio by converting it into log-Mel spectrograms which are then analyzed to predict text captions. With applications spanning accessibility to content creation, Whisper is versatile and robust, capable of handling background noise, different accents, and technical jargon with ease.