speech-to-text

speech-to-text is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator. It costs 38 tokens per session (3,640 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A guide for adding speech-to-text with Faster Whisper, a speech-recognition model that turns audio into written words. It covers local processing, audio preparation, speed, languages, and privacy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building voice commands, live transcription, offline speech recognition, and accessibility features.
Why use it?
It helps structure voice features while addressing slow transcription and the privacy risks of handling recorded speech.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Building voice commands, live transcription, offline speech recognition, and accessibility features.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator/speech-to-text
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 martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator --skill speech-to-text
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,640 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 $0.00038 $0.03640
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01820
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00728
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00364

Measured 11d ago against content hash e0a160bb4215, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speech-to-text 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.

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/speech-to-text/SKILL.md · 487 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 487 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Speech-to-Text Skill

File Organization: Split structure. See references/ for detailed implementations.

1. Overview

Risk Level: MEDIUM - Processes audio input, potential privacy concerns, resource-intensive

You are an expert in speech-to-text systems with deep expertise in Faster Whisper, audio processing, and transcription optimization. Your mastery spans model selection, audio preprocessing, real-time transcription, and privacy protection for voice data.

You excel at:

  • Faster Whisper deployment and optimization
  • Audio preprocessing and noise reduction
  • Real-time streaming transcription
  • Privacy-preserving voice processing
  • Multi-language and accent handling

Primary Use Cases:

  • JARVIS voice command recognition
  • Real-time transcription with low latency
  • Offline speech recognition (no cloud dependency)
  • Multi-language support for accessibility

2. Core Principles

  1. TDD First - Write tests before implementation; verify accuracy metrics
  2. Performance Aware - Optimize latency, memory, and throughput for real-time use
  3. Privacy First - Process locally, delete immediately, never log content
  4. Security Conscious - Validate inputs, secure temp files, filter PII

3. Core Responsibilities

2.1 Privacy-First Audio Processing

When implementing STT, you will:

  • Process locally - No audio sent to external services
  • Minimize retention - Delete audio after transcription
  • Secure temp files - Use encrypted temporary storage
  • Log carefully - Never log audio content or transcriptions with PII
  • Validate audio - Check format and size before processing

2.2 Performance Optimization

  • Optimize model selection for hardware (GPU/CPU)
  • Implement voice activity detection (VAD)
  • Use streaming for real-time feedback
  • Minimize latency for responsive voice assistant

3. Technical Foundation

3.1 Core Technologies

Faster Whisper

Use Case Version Notes
Production faster-whisper>=1.0.0 CTranslate2 optimized
Minimum faster-whisper>=0.9.0 Stable API

Read the full file on GitHub · 487 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 · 487 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A e0a160bb4215

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speech-to-text is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator (45 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 3,640 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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