Transcribe audio with OpenAI Whisper
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openclaw/openclaw ↗What it does
Transcribe audio to text using OpenAI Whisper API
Best for
Transcribing user-provided or recorded audio where Whisper multilingual accuracy avoids language-specific codec complexity.
Inputs
- · audio file path or URL
- · language hint
- · response format
Outputs
- · transcription text
- · confidence scores
- · speaker timings (VTT)
Requires
- · OpenAI Whisper API
- · audio codec support
Preconditions
OPENAI_API_KEY set; audio file accessible
Failure modes
- · background noise degradation
- · multilingual mixing
- · token quota exhaustion
Trust signals
- · confidence thresholding
- · speaker identification heuristics
- · language detection