openai-whisper
Installation
Summary
Local speech-to-text transcription using OpenAI's Whisper CLI without API keys.
- Transcribes audio files (MP3, M4A, and other formats) directly on your machine with no external API calls required
- Supports multiple model sizes (tiny, base, small, medium, large, turbo) with automatic caching to
~/.cache/whisperon first run - Offers transcription and translation tasks with configurable output formats (TXT, SRT, JSON, VTT)
- Requires only the
whisperCLI binary, installable via Homebrew or pip
SKILL.md
Whisper (CLI)
Use whisper to transcribe audio locally.
Quick start
whisper /path/audio.mp3 --model medium --output_format txt --output_dir .whisper /path/audio.m4a --task translate --output_format srt
Notes
- Models download to
~/.cache/whisperon first run. --modeldefaults toturboon this install.- Use smaller models for speed, larger for accuracy.