Use Local Whisper

by sbusso

Use Local Whisper is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by sbusso in claudeclaw.

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Install Use Local Whisper

Copy Use Local Whisper into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/sbusso/claudeclaw/tree/main/skills/use-local-whisper ~/.claude/skills/use-local-whisper

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/sbusso/claudeclaw.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/use-local-whisper/SKILL.md in sbusso/claudeclaw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/use-local-whisper
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Use Local Whisper does

Use Local Whisper switches voice transcription from the OpenAI Whisper API to local whisper.cpp on Apple Silicon. Use it when you want WhatsApp voice notes transcribed on-device with no API key or network call.

Use Local Whisper is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Use Local Whisper comes from a repository tagged agent, agentic-ai, claude-code and openclaw.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Use Local Whisper

Switches voice transcription from OpenAI's Whisper API to local whisper.cpp. Runs entirely on-device — no API key, no network, no cost.

Channel support: Currently WhatsApp only. The transcription module (src/transcription.ts) uses Baileys types for audio download. Other channels (Telegram, Discord, etc.) would need their own audio-download logic before this skill can serve them.

Note: The Homebrew package is whisper-cpp, but the CLI binary it installs is whisper-cli.

Prerequisites

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Use Local Whisper

What else does sbusso publish alongside Use Local Whisper?
Use Local Whisper is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from sbusso/claudeclaw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Compact Command, Add Gmail and Add Reactions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Use Local Whisper does, and is maintained by sbusso in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the sbusso/claudeclaw page.
How does Use Local Whisper compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Use Local Whisper ranks #2897 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Use Local Whisper against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.