openai-whisper-api

---
name: openai-whisper-api
description: Transcribe audio via OpenAI Audio Transcriptions API (Whisper). Use when the user wants to transcribe, convert speech to text, extract words from audio or voice recordings, generate a transcript from an audio file, or perform speech recognition on m4a, ogg, or wav files using the Whisper model.
homepage: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text
metadata:
  {
    "otto":
      {
        "emoji": "☁️",
        "requires": { "bins": ["curl"], "env": ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] },
        "primaryEnv": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
      },
  }
---

# OpenAI Whisper API (curl)

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

## Quick start

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

Defaults:

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

## Useful flags

```bash
{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 `OPENAI_API_KEY`, or configure it in `~/.otto/otto.json`:

```json5
{
  skills: {
    "openai-whisper-api": {
      apiKey: "OPENAI_KEY_HERE",
    },
  },
}
```

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