whisper

whisper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DJRHails/dotfiles. It costs 67 tokens per session (2,035 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of whisper, MIT.

A speech-recognition model that turns spoken audio into written text, identifies languages, and can translate speech into English. It can be used with podcasts, videos, meetings, and noisy or multilingual recordings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for speech-to-text transcription, podcast or video transcripts, meeting notes, language identification, and translation to English.
Why use it?
It removes the need to transcribe audio manually and helps process speech in many languages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for speech-to-text transcription, podcast or video transcripts, meeting notes, language identification, and translation to English.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/djrhails/dotfiles/whisper
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add DJRHails/dotfiles --skill whisper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DJRHails/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,035 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00067 $0.02035
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01018
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00203

Measured 4d ago against content hash 060e2cc18ff6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

whisper scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

# Ubuntu: sudo apt install ffmpeg
Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to whisper — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

modules/agents/skills/whisper/SKILL.md · 321 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Whisper - Robust Speech Recognition

OpenAI's multilingual speech recognition model.

When to use Whisper

Use when:

  • Speech-to-text transcription (99 languages)
  • Podcast/video transcription
  • Meeting notes automation
  • Translation to English
  • Noisy audio transcription
  • Multilingual audio processing

Metrics:

  • 72,900+ GitHub stars
  • 99 languages supported
  • Trained on 680,000 hours of audio
  • MIT License

Use alternatives instead:

  • AssemblyAI: Managed API, speaker diarization
  • Deepgram: Real-time streaming ASR
  • Google Speech-to-Text: Cloud-based

Quick start

Installation

# Requires Python 3.8-3.11
pip install -U openai-whisper

# Requires ffmpeg
# macOS: brew install ffmpeg
# Ubuntu: sudo apt install ffmpeg
# Windows: choco install ffmpeg

Basic transcription

import whisper

# Load model
model = whisper.load_model("base")

# Transcribe
result = model.transcribe("audio.mp3")

# Print text
print(result["text"])

# Access segments
for segment in result["segments"]:
    print(f"[{segment['start']:.2f}s - {segment['end']:.2f}s] {segment['text']}")

Model sizes

# Available models
models = ["tiny", "base", "small", "medium", "large", "turbo"]

# Load specific model
model = whisper.load_model("turbo")  # Fastest, good quality
Model Parameters English-only Multilingual Speed VRAM
tiny 39M ~32x ~1 GB
base 74M ~16x ~1 GB
small 244M ~6x ~2 GB
medium 769M ~2x ~5 GB
large 1550M 1x ~10 GB
turbo 809M ~8x ~6 GB

Recommendation: Use turbo for best speed/quality, base for prototyping

Transcription options

Language specification

# Auto-detect language
result = model.transcribe("audio.mp3")

# Specify language (faster)
result = model.transcribe("audio.mp3", language="en")

# Supported: en, es, fr, de, it, pt, ru, ja, ko, zh, and 89 more

Read the full file on GitHub · 321 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. 4d ago First seen · 321 lines · 67 tokens per session scan B 060e2cc18ff6

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whisper is a skill published in the GitHub repository DJRHails/dotfiles (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,035 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). It is 91% identical to whisper, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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