audio-transcribe

audio-transcribe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from belschak/video-watch. It costs 144 tokens per session (556 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns local audio or video recordings into dated Markdown transcripts using Whisper, a speech-to-text system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for voice memos, meetings, dictation, interviews, or other local recordings. It can add timestamps and optional word lists for technical terms.
Why use it?
It removes the need to type recordings manually and keeps the transcript beside the original file.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it for voice memos, meetings, dictation, interviews, or other local recordings. It can add timestamps and optional word lists for technical terms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/belschak/video-watch/audio-transcribe
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add belschak/video-watch --skill audio-transcribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/belschak/video-watch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 556 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00144 $0.00556
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00056

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9220132712d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audio-transcribe 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/audio-transcribe.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

audio-transcribe/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

audio-transcribe

Local audio file -> Whisper transcript as .md. The script does everything itself: ffmpeg conversion (16 kHz mono opus), chunking above 20 MB, upload to the configured endpoint, retries, temp cleanup. It imports the proven pipeline of the video-watch skill instead of duplicating it, so both skills need to be installed side by side (they ship in the same repo).

Setup (once): same .env as video-watch (in the video-watch repo root or skill folder; both locations are read): WHISPER_API_URL, plus WHISPER_API_KEY for hosted APIs. See .env.example. ffmpeg must be on PATH.

Workflow

  1. Transcribe:
    python3 <skill-path>/scripts/audio-transcribe.py "<path>" [--vocab "Term1, Term2"] [--out <folder>] [--json]
    
    • --vocab: proper nouns and jargon likely to occur (derive from file name and context). Improves Whisper accuracy noticeably.
    • Several files in one call are fine; --out must then be a folder.
    • --json: additionally write raw segments (finer timestamps) as .json, only for machine post-processing.
  2. Output: <name>-transcript-YYYY-MM-DD.md next to the source file, paragraphs with [m:ss] timestamps. If the source sits in an awkward place (Downloads, Desktop), use --out to write into the matching project folder instead, never into a workspace root.
  3. Answer follow-ups ("summarize", "what do I say about X") from the .md; never transcribe twice.

Cost depends on your endpoint; at Groq's whisper-large-v3 pricing (as of 2026-07) about $0.111 per audio hour. For YouTube or podcast URLs use the video-watch skill.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 25 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A 9220132712d0

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audio-transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository belschak/video-watch (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 556 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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