OpenAI Whisper API (curl)
SkillMediaTranscribe audio via OpenAI Audio Transcriptions API (Whisper).
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the OpenAI Whisper API (curl) skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by understudy-ai/understudy in skills/openai-whisper-api/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
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 ~/.understudy/config.json5:
{
skills: {
"openai-whisper-api": {
apiKey: "OPENAI_KEY_HERE",
},
},
}
Signals
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- Last commit
- Jun 2026
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openai-whisper-api-understudy-ai- Source
- github.com/understudy-ai/understudy