This is incredible! Thank you for sharing! Did OpenAI release these pretrained models, or was the training done separately alone with this project?
Of OpenAI releases the pretrained models, why would we use their service?
They are pre-trained. This project is running a port of the original open AI release [0] to C++.
From the OpenAI paper and release notes: "We are releasing models and inference code to serve as a foundation for further work on robust speech processing." So I guess they are either truly altruistic in this, or they are planning on monetising whatever they build on top of it.
Also OpenAI is a startup (if we can call it that) so their value right now is more about being impressive, and looking a lot like future value; as opposed to showing an immediate route to profit.