Openai Whisper Api
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 1, 2026.
Overview
This skill does what it says: it uploads a chosen audio file to OpenAI for transcription and saves the result locally.
Before installing, confirm you are comfortable sending selected audio files to OpenAI for transcription and using your OpenAI API key for those requests.
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Any audio file you transcribe will be sent to OpenAI's API, and the transcript will be saved to the specified or default local path.
The script uses curl to upload the user-selected audio file to OpenAI and write the transcription response to a local output file, which is central to the skill's stated purpose.
curl -sS https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions ... -F "file=@${in}" ... >"$out"Only use this skill with audio files you are comfortable sending to OpenAI, and check the output path before running it.
The skill needs access to your OpenAI API key to submit transcription requests that may incur account usage or cost.
The script uses the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable to authenticate to OpenAI, which is expected for this API integration and is not shown being logged or sent elsewhere.
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"
Use an API key with appropriate account controls, monitor OpenAI usage, and do not place the key in shared logs or public configuration files.