transcriber

A command for setting up local speech-to-text transcription with ONNX models such as Parakeet or Canary. It prints environment-variable settings for offline transcription and does not change shell configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose an ONNX transcription model and configure the summarizer's automatic provider order. The printed settings can be exported before running transcription.
Why use it?
It helps prepare a local fallback when cloud transcription is unavailable or when audio must stay on the machine.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/steipete/summarize/transcriber
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/summarize
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 608 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00608
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00061

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6c0353ccf4df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transcriber scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/transcriber.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

summarize transcriber

summarize transcriber setup [--model parakeet|canary] [--theme <name>]

Configures local ONNX transcription. The command prints the env vars you need to export — it doesn't write to your shell config. Once those vars are exported, --transcriber auto (or SUMMARIZE_TRANSCRIBER=auto) uses ONNX after Groq and before whisper.cpp and the remaining cloud fallbacks.

How auto picks a transcriber

When --transcriber auto is set (default), summarize tries providers in this order:

  1. Groq — fastest cloud option. Needs GROQ_API_KEY.
  2. Local ONNX (Parakeet or Canary), then whisper.cpp — fully offline. ONNX needs the env vars from this command.
  3. AssemblyAI / Gemini / OpenAI / FAL / Deepgram — cloud fallbacks, in that order, gated by their respective API keys.

OPENAI_WHISPER_BASE_URL changes the endpoint used by the OpenAI transcription stage; it is not a separate provider in the order above.

Subcommand

summarize transcriber setup

--model <name> : parakeet (default) or canary. Picks which ONNX model the printed snippet targets.

--theme <name> : CLI theme override.

The output is a labelled, copy-pasteable block of export lines for your shell. Re-run with the other model to switch.

Environment

Set by the printed snippet:

SUMMARIZE_ONNX_PARAKEET_CMD : Command to run Parakeet ONNX transcription. Use {input} as the audio-file placeholder.

SUMMARIZE_ONNX_CANARY_CMD : Command to run Canary ONNX transcription. Use {input} as the audio-file placeholder.

SUMMARIZE_TRANSCRIBER : Optional. Select the local stage with auto, whisper, parakeet, or canary without passing --transcriber every time.

Examples

# Default: Parakeet.
summarize transcriber setup

# Set up Canary instead.
summarize transcriber setup --model canary

# After exporting the printed vars:
summarize "https://podcasts.apple.com/.../episode-..." --transcriber parakeet

See also

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 68 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6c0353ccf4df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

transcriber is a command published in the GitHub repository steipete/summarize (6,588 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 608 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.