CrisperWhisper 2: transcription with word-level timing
Two output modes — what the person actually said and what they meant. Runs even without a graphics card.
CrisperWhisper 2 turns audio into text, like any transcriber. The difference lies in two design choices that solve opposite problems with the same model.
The first is having two output modes. The second is delivering the start and end time of each word, not the whole block — which completely changes what you can automate afterward.
Why this matters
- Accurate captions depend on word-level timing; without it, alignment is done by eye.
+ 2 points on paid plans.
Spec sheet
- License
- Open source (modelos no Hugging Face)
- Models
- 4, from 0.2B to 2B parameters
- Smallest model
- < 500 MB, runs without GPU
- Timestamping
- Por palavra
- Online test
- Free space on Hugging Face
The microcourse
1.The two modes — and when to use each
2 min- Verbatim. Transcribes everything: stuttering, hesitation, laughter, repetition, behavior markers. That's what you want for interviews, qualitative research, speech analysis, and faithful captioning.
- Intended. Removes hesitations and speech noise and returns clean text. That's what you want for meeting notes, articles, scripts, and anything that will be read.
Note that the choice isn't about quality — it's about the text's purpose. The common mistake is running everything in clean mode and realizing too late that the hesitation was the data that mattered.
- Test without installing anything2 min
- Choose the model size2 min
Faltam 2 classes para você concluir
You're looking at the tool's profile — what it is and what it doesn't do. The step-by-step, selection criteria, and what to do with it are in the microcourse, and the full microcourse is from Expert.
- Freeyour planOpening of the 1st lesson
- Explorer1st full lesson + limitations
- ProfessionalAll lessons + who it's for
- ExpertFicha completa + site oficial da ferramenta
O Explorer (R$ 57/mês) abre 2 of 3 lessons. Only Expert unlocks all of them — and it applies to every microcourse in the section.
How we verified
We track releases straight from primary sources, transcribe what's demonstrated, verify every name and number against the manufacturer's official documentation, and rewrite it in Portuguese — along with the tool's limitations, which is the part the announcement leaves out.
The official address of CrisperWhisper 2 opens on the Expert plan