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whisper Skill

AI Agent SkillPythonOpen source

Transcribe and translate speech in 99 languages. Published by NousResearch in hermes-agent.

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Is this a fit?

Best for

Deployment, Design and media, Includes SKILL.md, Reusable instructions

Works with

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Access

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Setup

Copy skill directory

Project health

29 days ago · MIT license

Considerations

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What is whisper Skill?

Transcribe and translate speech in 99 languages. Published by NousResearch in hermes-agent. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.

Trust signal
95/100
Maintenance signal
90/100
Adoption signal
100/100

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Key capabilities

  • Includes SKILL.md support
  • Reusable instructions support
  • Deployment
  • Design and media
  • Deployment use cases
  • Design and media use cases

Declared skill metadata

  • Declared author: Orchestra Research
  • Declared license: MIT
  • Source file: optional-skills/mlops/whisper/SKILL.md

These fields retain source and confidence evidence from the indexed SKILL.md.

Compatibility and setup

Copy skill directory
  • Install or run with Copy skill directory

When to use whisper Skill

  • Use it for deployment.
  • Use it for design and media.

Built with

PythonCopy skill directory

Editorial notes

Source

  • Creator: NousResearch
  • Repository: NousResearch/hermes-agent
  • Skill file: optional-skills/mlops/whisper/SKILL.md

What it does

Transcribe and translate speech in 99 languages.

Skill instructions

Whisper - Robust Speech Recognition OpenAI's multilingual speech recognition model. When to use Whisper Use when: - Speech-to-text transcription (99 languages) - Podcast/video transcription - Meeting notes automation - Translation to English - Noisy audio transcription - Multilingual audio processing Metrics: - 72,900+ GitHub stars - 99 languages supported - Trained on 680,000 hours of audio - MIT License Use alternatives instead: - AssemblyAI: Managed API, speaker diarization - Deepgram: Real-time streaming ASR - Google Speech-to-Text: Cloud-based Quick start Installation bash Requires Python 3.8-3.11 pip install -U openai-whisper Requires ffmpeg macOS: brew install ffmpeg Ubuntu: sudo apt install ffmpeg Windows: choco install ffmpeg Basic transcription python import whisper Load model model = whisper.loadmodel("base") Transcribe result = model.transcribe("audio.mp3") Print text print(result["text"]) Access segments for segment in result["segments"]: print(f"[{segment['start']:.2f}s -

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Frequently asked questions

What is whisper?

whisper is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. Transcribe and translate speech in 99 languages.

Who is whisper best for?

whisper is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, deployment workflows, design and media workflows.

How do I install whisper?

Install or run whisper using Copy skill directory. Check whisper for the latest setup command.

Is whisper actively maintained?

whisper may need a closer maintenance check before production use.

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Last commit
29 days ago
Last verified
Aug 10, 2026
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Repository age
1 year
License
MIT

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