OpenAI Whisper API (curl)

Transcribe an audio file via OpenAI’s /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint.

Quick start

{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a

Defaults:

• Model: whisper-1
• Output: <input>.txt

Whisper.cpp example

/ai/whisper.cpp/build/bin/whisper-server -m /ai/models/whisper/ggml-large-v3-turbo-q8_0.bin --host 192.168.0.55 --port 5005 -sow --vad --vad-model /ai/models/whisper/ggml-silero-v6.2.0.bin --inference-path /v1/audio/transcriptions

Useful flags

{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.ogg --model whisper-1 --out /tmp/transcript.txt
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --language en
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --prompt "Speaker names: Peter, Daniel"
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --json --out /tmp/transcript.json

API key

Set WHISPER_API_KEY and WHISPER_API_HOST, or configure it in ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json:

{
  skills: {
    "openai-whisper-api": {
      apiKey: "WHISPER_API_KEY_HERE",
      apiHost: "WHISPER_API_HOST_HERE"
    }
  }
}