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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. 88 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 24 Jul 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 59 · avg 19 · -33% w/w
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pypi · whisper-transcribe-mcp
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24 Jul 2026
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0 releases in 90 days
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.

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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.

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": {
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.whisper-transcribe-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["whisper-transcribe-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whisper-transcribe-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "whisper-transcribe-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: 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.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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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 88 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 with the file path 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 88 times in the last week. Week over week that is -33%. 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.