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Self Hosted Whisper API by modbender

Name: Self Hosted Whisper API
Rating: 4.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
Author: modbender

Self Hosted Whisper API

Transcribe audio via the self-hosted Whisper ASR instance running on Kubernetes. Use this skill whenever the user wants to transcribe audio files, convert speech to text, generate subtitles, or translate audio. Triggers on audio transcription, speech-to-text, whisper, voice-to-text, subtitle generation, or audio translation requests.

modbender Updated Sep 9, 2026 12 repo stars

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Self-Hosted Whisper API (curl)

Transcribe an audio file via the Whisper ASR webservice at http://whisper-asr.whisper-asr.svc.cluster.local:9000.

Uses the onerahmet/openai-whisper-asr-webservice API (/asr endpoint).

Quick start

{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a

Defaults:

Endpoint: http://whisper-asr.whisper-asr.svc.cluster.local:9000/asr
Task: transcribe
Output: txt

Useful flags

{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.ogg --language en --out /tmp/transcript.txt
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --language de
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --json --out /tmp/transcript.json
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --output srt --out /tmp/subtitles.srt
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --output vtt
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --translate
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --vad-filter --json
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --word-timestamps --json

Notes

Supported --output formats: txt, json, vtt, srt, tsv
--translate produces an English transcript regardless of source language
--vad-filter enables voice activity detection to skip silent sections
--word-timestamps adds word-level timing (use with --json)
The model is configured on the server side (ASR_MODEL env var), not per request
Swagger docs available at http://whisper-asr.whisper-asr.svc.cluster.local:9000/docs
No authentication required

---name: self-hosted-whisper-apidescription: Transcribe audio via the self-hosted Whisper ASR instance running on Kubernetes. Use this skill whenever the user wants to transcribe audio files, convert speech to text, generate subtitles, or translate audio. Triggers on audio transcription, speech-to-text, whisper, voice-to-text, subtitle generation, or audio translation requests.--- # Self-Hosted Whisper API (curl) Transcribe an audio file via the Whisper ASR webservice at `http://whisper-asr.whisper-asr.svc.cluster.local:9000`. Uses the [onerahmet/openai-whisper-asr-webservice](https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice) API (`/asr` endpoint). ## Quick start ```bash {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a ``` Defaults: - Endpoint: `http://whisper-asr.whisper-asr.svc.cluster.local:9000/asr` - Task: `transcribe` - Output: `txt` ## Useful flags ```bash {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.ogg --language en --out /tmp/transcript.txt {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --language de {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --json --out /tmp/transcript.json {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --output srt --out /tmp/subtitles.srt {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --output vtt {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --translate {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --vad-filter --json {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --word-timestamps --json ``` ## Notes - Supported `--output` formats: `txt`, `json`, `vtt`, `srt`, `tsv` - `--translate` produces an English transcript regardless of source language - `--vad-filter` enables voice activity detection to skip silent sections - `--word-timestamps` adds word-level timing (use with `--json`) - The model is configured on the server side (ASR_MODEL env var), not per request - Swagger docs available at `http://whisper-asr.whisper-asr.svc.cluster.local:9000/docs` - No authentication required

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