/openai-whisper-api

name: openai-whisper-api
description: Transcribe audio via OpenAI Audio Transcriptions API (Whisper).
homepage: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text
metadata:
  {
    "bitterbot":
      {
        "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

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

Defaults:

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

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 `OPENAI_API_KEY`, or configure it in `~/.bitterbot/bitterbot.json`:

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