openai-whisper-api

openai-whisper-api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from geezerrrr/motive. It costs 20 tokens per session (338 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of openai-whisper-api, MIT.

A script that sends an audio file to OpenAI's online speech-to-text service and saves the returned transcription. It can set the language, add context, and save plain text or JSON.

In plain words
What is it for?
Transcribing recordings such as meetings, interviews, and voice notes, with optional language hints, speaker-name prompts, or machine-readable JSON output.
Why use it?
It provides transcription without running the speech model on your own computer. It does require an OpenAI API key and sends the recording to the service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Transcribing recordings such as meetings, interviews, and voice notes, with optional language hints, speaker-name prompts, or machine-readable JSON output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/geezerrrr/motive/openai-whisper-api
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.

Any agent
npx skills add geezerrrr/motive --skill openai-whisper-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/geezerrrr/motive

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 338 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 80% 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 $0.00020 $0.00338
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00135
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c0ad50049a94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openai-whisper-api scanned grade A 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/transcribe.sh), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

"requires": { "bins": ["curl"], "env": ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] },
Origin

This is a copy

80% identical to openai-whisper-api — 4 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.

Motive/Resources/Skills.bundle/openai-whisper-api/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

OpenAI Whisper API (curl)

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 ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

{
  skills: {
    "openai-whisper-api": {
      apiKey: "OPENAI_KEY_HERE",
    },
  },
}
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. 2mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A c0ad50049a94

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openai-whisper-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository geezerrrr/motive (118 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 338 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 80% identical to openai-whisper-api, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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