# Two questions about transcription challenge

**URL:** <https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/two-questions-about-transcription-challenge/320>\
**Category:** Ego4D Challenges\
**Tags:** audio-visual\
**Created:** [May 16, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/two-questions-about-transcription-challenge/320 "2023-05-16T20:31:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jaesung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@Jaesung](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/u/Jaesung)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/two-questions-about-transcription-challenge/320/1 "2023-05-16T20:31:15Z")

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I want to ask two questions regarding speech transcription challenge.

(1) Is it okay to use OpenAI’s whisper model ([Introducing Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper)) for our challenge? I know that it’s a publicly available model, but want to make sure.

(2) If so, do you normalise our submission json file before evaluation? Or do I have to submit the json file after normalising with english.glm provided in the github repo?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![jachym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a5b964/32.png) [@jachym](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/u/jachym)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.ego4d-data.org/t/two-questions-about-transcription-challenge/320/2 "2023-05-18T11:08:39Z")

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1. I am not sure how you use Whisper as part of your solution, but please be sure you comply with Challenge Official Rules [https://ego4d-interactive-fig1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/tc.pdf](https://ego4d-interactive-fig1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/tc.pdf) especially the part “Intellectual Property”.

2. Before scoring the submissions, our evaluation script will itself lowercase the words in the transcript and apply the English GLM.