OpenAI Whisper API (curl)

SkillMedia

Lets your agent turn audio files into text transcripts using OpenAI's speech-to-text service.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the OpenAI Whisper API (curl) skill

About this capability

Transcribe audio via OpenAI Audio Transcriptions API (Whisper).

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop 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 ~/.bitterbot/bitterbot.json:

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

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