Whisper Transcribe MCP Server

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Whisper Transcribe runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 172 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 30 Sep 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 62 · avg 33 · -43% w/w

a month agotoday

172

Installs / week

pypi · whisper-transcribe-mcp

Stars

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30 Sep 2026

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MIT

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Whisper Transcribe every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add whisper-transcribe-mcp -- uvx whisper-transcribe-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.whisper-transcribe-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["whisper-transcribe-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: OPENAI_API_KEY (OpenAI API key. Enables the cloud backend and optional GPT post-processing), WHISPER_MODEL (Default faster-whisper model size when using the local backend), WHISPER_POST_PROCESS_MODEL (OpenAI chat model used for optional GPT post-processing).

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Whisper Transcribe — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Whisper Transcribe?

Whisper Transcribe runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package whisper-transcribe-mcp was installed 172 times last week.

How do I connect Whisper Transcribe?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls whisper-transcribe-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Whisper Transcribe?

The pypi package whisper-transcribe-mcp was installed 172 times in the last week. Week over week that is -43%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Whisper Transcribe open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.