What is voice-transcribe?

A speech-to-text step that converts incoming voice notes and audio messages into text before the agent processes them.

Use it to transcribe voice notes from chat channels, pass the transcript to the router, and remove temporary audio files afterward.

It lets the normal text-based chat system understand spoken messages without requiring a separate voice conversation flow.

voice-transcribe — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by TheSmokeDev

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 TheSmokeDev/taskchad-os --skill voice-transcribe

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSmokeDev/taskchad-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 469 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Data Exfiltration · line 27
Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00053	$0.00469
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00188
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00094
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00047

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6aa45e500134, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

voice-transcribe 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.

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.

curl -s https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions \

optional-skills/communication/voice-transcribe/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Voice Transcribe

Convert a voice note into text so the normal chat pipeline can handle it. This runs as a pre-processing step on inbound audio, before routing.

Pipeline

Receive — the channel adapter saves the audio attachment to a temp path.
Transcribe — run speech-to-text (preference order):
- OpenAI Whisper API if OPENAI_API_KEY is set (fast, no local deps):
```
curl -s https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -F model=whisper-1 -F [email protected]
```
- Local faster-whisper if no key is configured and CPU/GPU allows.
Inject — replace the message body with the transcript, tag it [voice], and hand it to the router as if the user had typed it.
Clean up — delete the temp audio file after transcription.

Notes

WhatsApp/Telegram voice notes are usually .ogg (Opus). Whisper accepts it directly; faster-whisper may need ffmpeg installed.
Keep the original duration in metadata so the agent can say "got your 0:42 voice note" when useful.
Transcription is read-only — no capability gate needed. The reply still goes out through the normal gated chat.send path.
Never persist raw audio beyond the transcription step unless the user opts in.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 6aa45e500134

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voice-transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheSmokeDev/taskchad-os (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 469 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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