Openclaw-config openai-whisper-api

Transcribe audio via OpenAI Audio Transcriptions API (Whisper); Don't use if you want local/offline transcription; prefer openai-whisper.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/unisone/openclaw-config

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/unisone/openclaw-config "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/openai-whisper-api" ~/.claude/skills/unisone-openclaw-config-openai-whisper-api && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/unisone/openclaw-config "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/openai-whisper-api" ~/.openclaw/skills/unisone-openclaw-config-openai-whisper-api && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/openai-whisper-api/SKILL.md

source content

OpenAI Whisper API (curl)

Transcribe an audio file via OpenAI’s

/v1/audio/transcriptions

endpoint.

Routing

❌ Don't use if you want local/offline transcription.
✅ Prefer
```
openai-whisper
```
for local/offline transcription.

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",
    },
  },
}