The register
Whisper base listened to 504 windows of nothing: digital silence, and white, pink and brown noise and mains hum at different levels, eight seconds each, in 24 languages. Not one of them had a voice in it. It said something in every one.
A name from the creditss
Subtitles for TV end with who made them, over the silent last seconds of a show. Whisper learned that silence sounds like those names. These are the spirits it believes in most: it is sure nobody is talking, and just as sure about the names.
TV GELDERLAND 2020.
The name of a Dutch regional TV channel, and a year.
Dutch · heard 16 times · Whisper 91% sure nobody spoke · got past the guard 16 of 16
Редактор субтитров А.Синецкая Корректор А.Егорова
Subtitle editor (a name), proofreader (a name).
Russian · heard 5 times · Whisper 93% sure nobody spoke · got past the guard 5 of 5
SWR 2020
The name of a German public broadcaster, and a year.
German · heard 1 time · Whisper 94% sure nobody spoke · got past the guard 1 of 1
Bu dizinin betimlemesi TRT-8'ne yaptırılmıştır.
The audio description of this series was made for TRT, Turkey's public broadcaster.
Turkish · heard 15 times · Whisper 91% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
The end of a videos
Silence usually comes right after someone says goodbye to the camera, so silence brings the goodbye back.
さて、この動画を見てくれてありがとう!
Well, thanks for watching this video!
Japanese · heard 7 times · Whisper 93% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Je vous invite à vous faire une autre vidéo.
I invite you to make yourself another video.
French · heard 16 times · Whisper 90% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
이 영상은 이 영상에서 영상에서 만나요.
See you in this video (the end of "see you in the next video").
Korean · heard 6 times · Whisper 93% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
고마워요.
Thank you.
Korean · heard 2 times · Whisper 93% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Terima kasih banyak.
Thank you (very much).
Indonesian · heard 9 times · Whisper 91% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Dan saya akan berhenti di sini.
And I will stop here.
Indonesian · heard 2 times · Whisper 90% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Thank you.
Thank you.
English · heard 1 time · Whisper 93% sure nobody spoke · got past the guard 1 of 1
A sentence nobody saids
No credit, no goodbye. Just the likeliest words for a room with nobody in it.
you
Just "you". The most famous of Whisper's ghosts: it says it to silence.
English · heard 15 times · Whisper 91% sure nobody spoke · got past the guard 1 of 15
我看你
I'm looking at you.
Chinese · heard 6 times · Whisper 88% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
你不想要我
You don't want me.
Chinese · heard 1 time · Whisper 95% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
我以为你还没见到我
I thought you hadn't seen me yet.
Chinese · heard 1 time · Whisper 95% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
我以為你會不會有事的
I thought something might have happened to you.
Chinese · heard 1 time · Whisper 93% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Chúng ta sẽ ở đây
We will be here.
Vietnamese · heard 2 times · Whisper 86% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Chúng ta có thể quay lại
We can go back.
Vietnamese · heard 2 times · Whisper 85% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Ви не говорили?
Weren't you speaking?
Ukrainian · heard 2 times · Whisper 90% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Він не може вирішитися.
He can't make up his mind.
Ukrainian · heard 8 times · Whisper 89% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
さて、私は私の心を見つけます
I will find my heart.
Japanese · heard 2 times · Whisper 87% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
I'm going to go to the bathroom.
I'm going to go to the bathroom.
English · heard 3 times · Whisper 85% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
English · heard 1 time · Whisper 88% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
பிருக்கிறாய் அம்மா, பிருக்கிறாய் அம்மா, பிரு
Amma: mother.
Tamil · heard 4 times · Whisper 92% sure nobody spoke · got past the guard 3 of 4
A chants
The decoder falls into a loop and can't get out. Whisper's guard calls this too repetitive and tries again.
이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이곳은 이
This place is, this place is, this place is…
Korean · heard 9 times · Whisper 88% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Shree, Sh
Shree, Shree, Shree: the word said before a holy name.
Hindi · heard 5 times · Whisper 91% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
dhagdhagdhagdhagdhagdhagdhagdhagdhagdhagdhagdhagdhagd
Dhag-dhag-dhag: the sound word for a fire blazing.
Marathi · heard 9 times · Whisper 91% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
A numbers
Plain hiss, heard as Norwegian Nynorsk, comes out as a number.
1.5%
1.5%
Norwegian Nynorsk · heard 21 times · Whisper 90% sure nobody spoke · the guard caught it every time
Run it yourself
Same model files, same static, same spirits. npm run sweep rebuilds this page's data from scratch on your own machine in about six minutes, and the tests check that every entry here really turned up. The model is whisper-base, quantised to 8 bits.