Whisper Transcribe MCP Server

Name: Whisper Transcribe MCP Server
Author: io.github.ZahiriNatZuke

io.github.ZahiriNatZuke/whisper-transcribe-mcp

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What is the Whisper Transcribe MCP server?

Transcribe audio locally with faster-whisper or through the OpenAI Whisper API.

How to install Whisper Transcribe

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

OPENAI_API_KEY
secret
OpenAI API key. Enables the cloud backend and optional GPT post-processing.
WHISPER_MODEL
Default faster-whisper model size when using the local backend.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "WHISPER_MODEL": "<YOUR_WHISPER_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "WHISPER_MODEL": "<YOUR_WHISPER_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "WHISPER_MODEL": "<YOUR_WHISPER_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "WHISPER_MODEL": "<YOUR_WHISPER_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add whisper-transcribe-mcp --env OPENAI_API_KEY=<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY> --env WHISPER_MODEL=<YOUR_WHISPER_MODEL> -- uvx whisper-transcribe-mcp

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Python

MIT

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