Update README.md (openai#894)

Fixed a few typos and made general improvements for clarity.

Co-authored-by: Jong Wook Kim <jongwook@openai.com>

Author: 2 people

README.md

@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ This is an UNOFFICIAL distribution of whisper.ai.
 [[Model card]](https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/model-card.md)
 [[Colab example]](https://colab.research.google.com/github/openai/whisper/blob/master/notebooks/LibriSpeech.ipynb)
 
-Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.
+Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multitasking model that can perform multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, and language identification.
 
 
 ## Approach
 
 ![Approach](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/whisper/main/approach.png)
 
-A Transformer sequence-to-sequence model is trained on various speech processing tasks, including multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, spoken language identification, and voice activity detection. All of these tasks are jointly represented as a sequence of tokens to be predicted by the decoder, allowing for a single model to replace many different stages of a traditional speech processing pipeline. The multitask training format uses a set of special tokens that serve as task specifiers or classification targets.
+A Transformer sequence-to-sequence model is trained on various speech processing tasks, including multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, spoken language identification, and voice activity detection. These tasks are jointly represented as a sequence of tokens to be predicted by the decoder, allowing a single model to replace many stages of a traditional speech-processing pipeline. The multitask training format uses a set of special tokens that serve as task specifiers or classification targets.
 
 
 ## Setup
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ There are five model sizes, four with English-only versions, offering speed and
 | medium |   769 M    |    `medium.en`     |      `medium`      |     ~5 GB     |      ~2x       |
 | large  |   1550 M   |        N/A         |      `large`       |    ~10 GB     |       1x       |
 
-For English-only applications, the `.en` models tend to perform better, especially for the `tiny.en` and `base.en` models. We observed that the difference becomes less significant for the `small.en` and `medium.en` models.
+The `.en` models for English-only applications tend to perform better, especially for the `tiny.en` and `base.en` models. We observed that the difference becomes less significant for the `small.en` and `medium.en` models.
 
-Whisper's performance varies widely depending on the language. The figure below shows a WER (Word Error Rate) breakdown by languages of Fleurs dataset, using the `large-v2` model. More WER and BLEU scores corresponding to the other models and datasets can be found in Appendix D in [the paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04356). The smaller is better.
+Whisper's performance varies widely depending on the language. The figure below shows a WER (Word Error Rate) breakdown by languages of the Fleurs dataset using the `large-v2` model. More WER and BLEU scores corresponding to the other models and datasets can be found in Appendix D in [the paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04356). The smaller, the better.
 
 ![WER breakdown by language](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/whisper/main/language-breakdown.svg)
 
@@ -146,4 +146,4 @@ Please use the [🙌 Show and tell](https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussion
 
 ## License
 
-The code and the model weights of Whisper are released under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE) for further details.
+Whisper's code and model weights are released under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE) for further details.