I just got started using the new Whisper API (the one with the endpoint at https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions
). It works incredibly well when it gets the language right, but for some reason, it will sometimes give me an Arabic or Indi transcription.
I’m a native Spanish speaker so my English pronunciation may have caused the AI to think that I’m speaking another language. But when I translated the Arabic transcriptions into English, the translation was exactly what I said! So the AI actually did understand what I said in English, and then translated it into Arabic. I have zero idea why this is happening. I don’t know if there is a way to specify the languages I want to use, let alone how to tell Whisper not to not translate anything I say into another language.
Any idea why it’s doing this and how can I prevent it from doing it? I also tried filling up the prompt with English text but that doesn’t seem to make much of a difference.