whisper-transcribe

whisper-transcribe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from humancto/indic-voice-pipeline. It costs 125 tokens per session (2,086 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local tool that turns audio or video into written text using OpenAI Whisper, and can translate the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for making transcripts, translating audio or video, detecting languages, and creating subtitles or captions.
Why use it?
It lets transcription and translation run on your own machine instead of requiring an online transcription service.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It is for making transcripts, translating audio or video, detecting languages, and creating subtitles or captions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/humancto/indic-voice-pipeline/whisper-transcribe
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add humancto/indic-voice-pipeline --skill whisper-transcribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/humancto/indic-voice-pipeline

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,086 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 $0.00125 $0.02086
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01043
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00209

Measured 11d ago against content hash 84149f862a64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

whisper-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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check_deps.py, scripts/whisper_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.

skills/whisper-transcribe/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Whisper Transcribe

Transcribe and translate audio/video files locally using OpenAI Whisper. Supports 99 languages, runs entirely on your machine.

Prerequisites

Run once to install dependencies:

pip install openai-whisper --quiet
pip install transformers accelerate --quiet  # For HuggingFace fine-tuned models

ffmpeg is required for audio processing:

brew install ffmpeg  # macOS

Step-by-Step Workflow

For ANY transcription/translation request, follow these steps:

Step 1: Check dependencies

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/check_deps.py

Step 2: Determine intent and run the appropriate command

User wants to transcribe audio/video to text:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py transcribe "<FILE_PATH>" --output-dir ~/Downloads

User wants to translate audio/video to English:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py translate "<FILE_PATH>" --output-dir ~/Downloads

User wants to detect the language:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py detect "<FILE_PATH>"

User wants file info without transcribing:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py info "<FILE_PATH>"

Step 3: Report results

Tell the user:

  • Detected language and confidence
  • The full transcription text
  • Where output files were saved (text, SRT subtitles, JSON)
  • Processing time
  • If translated: both original language and English translation

All Commands

# Transcribe audio/video (auto-detects language, saves .txt + .srt + .json)
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py transcribe "<FILE>" --output-dir ~/Downloads

# Transcribe with a specific source language (faster, skips detection)
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py transcribe "<FILE>" --language te

# Transcribe with a larger model for better accuracy
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py transcribe "<FILE>" --model medium

# Transcribe with a specific HuggingFace fine-tuned model
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py transcribe "<FILE>" --hf-model "vasista22/whisper-telugu-large-v2"

# Translate any language to English
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py translate "<FILE>" --output-dir ~/Downloads

# Translate with known source language
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py translate "<FILE>" --language te

# Detect language of audio
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py detect "<FILE>"

# Show audio file metadata
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/whisper-transcribe/scripts/whisper_transcribe.py info "<FILE>"

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 183 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 84149f862a64

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whisper-transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository humancto/indic-voice-pipeline (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 2,086 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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