Transcribe speech locally with Whisper
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openclaw/openclaw ↗What it does
Transcribe audio files to text locally
Best for
Converting speech to text without API costs or latency when privacy matters
Inputs
- · audio file path (mp3, m4a, etc)
Outputs
- · transcribed text (txt, srt, or json)
Requires
- · whisper CLI (brew install openai-whisper)
Preconditions
whisper binary installed; audio file accessible
Failure modes
- · Model download fails if offline
- · Unsupported audio format
Trust signals
- · OpenAI official implementation
- · Supports multiple languages and tasks (transcribe/translate)