Transcribe audio locally with faster-whisper or through the OpenAI Whisper API.
Connect Runs on your machine
claude mcp add whisper-transcribe-mcp -e OPENAI_API_KEY=<OPENAI_API_KEY> -e WHISPER_MODEL=<WHISPER_MODEL> -e WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODEL=<WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODEL> -- uvx whisper-transcribe-mcp==1.1.3
{
"mcpServers": {
"whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"whisper-transcribe-mcp==1.1.3"
],
"env": {
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "<OPENAI_API_KEY>",
"WHISPER_MODEL": "<WHISPER_MODEL>",
"WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODEL": "<WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODEL>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"whisper-transcribe-mcp==1.1.3"
],
"env": {
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "<OPENAI_API_KEY>",
"WHISPER_MODEL": "<WHISPER_MODEL>",
"WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODEL": "<WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODEL>"
}
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"whisper-transcribe-mcp==1.1.3"
],
"env": {
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "<OPENAI_API_KEY>",
"WHISPER_MODEL": "<WHISPER_MODEL>",
"WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODEL": "<WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODEL>"
}
}
}
}
Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.
Tools
This server runs locally, so its tools are listed by your MCP client once it starts.
Environment variables
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
OPENAI_API_KEYOptional, secret | OpenAI API key. Enables the cloud backend and optional GPT post-processing. |
WHISPER_MODELOptional | Default faster-whisper model size when using the local backend. |
WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODELOptional | OpenAI chat model used for optional GPT post-processing. |
Details
| Package | [email protected] (PYPI, stdio) |
| First published | 22 Sep 2026 |
| Last updated | 22 Sep 2026 |
| Registry name | io.github.ZahiriNatZuke/whisper-transcribe-mcp |
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