voice-transcribe
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Transcribe an incoming Telegram (or other) voice message to text, fully offline. Use whenever a channel message arrives with an audio attachment and you need to know what was said.
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- kip-claw/skillstheir own version, first seen Jul 14, 2026
- jehrhardt/agentstheir own version, first seen May 16, 2026
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In this repositoryOne other file it gives its agents.
- voice-replySkill
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3 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 32
Download the audio: Call the Telegram plugin's download_attachment with the attachment_file_id from the channel meta.
- Distinctive: line 36
Transcribe: Run the transcriber with the repo's virtualenv python:
- Distinctive: line 48
Act on the transcript: Treat the printed text as if the user had typed it, and reply through the normal channel reply tool.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Voice Transcribe
Turn a voice message into text on the local machine, without sending audio to any cloud service. Backed by PyAV (decode) plus whisper.cpp (recognition).
When to use
A Telegram voice note arrives as a channel block whose meta carries an
attachment_file_id and an audio mime type, for example:
<channel source="telegram" chat_id="..." attachment_file_id="AwAC..." attachment_mime="audio/ogg">
(voice message)
</channel>You cannot read a voice note directly. Transcribe it first, then respond to the text as usual.
Prerequisite (one time)
From the repo root, run ./setup.sh. It builds whisper.cpp, downloads a model,
and creates a .venv with PyAV. Nothing leaves the machine.
Steps
- Download the audio. Call the Telegram plugin's
download_attachmentwith theattachment_file_idfrom the channel meta. It returns a local path to a.ogafile. Transcribe. Run the transcriber with the repo's virtualenv python:
/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/cc-telegram-voice/.venv/bin/python \ /ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/cc-telegram-voice/transcribe.py \ "<downloaded .oga path>" --lang zhReplace
/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/cc-telegram-voicewith wherever you cloned this repo. Use--lang zhfor Chinese,--lang enfor English, or--lang autoto let whisper detect. The transcript is printed to stdout.- Act on the transcript. Treat the printed text as if the user had typed it, and reply through the normal channel reply tool.
Notes
- Telegram voice notes are ogg/opus; PyAV decodes them without a system ffmpeg.
- WeChat voice messages use the SILK codec, which FFmpeg/PyAV cannot decode.
Supporting WeChat voice needs an extra SILK-to-PCM step (for example the
silk-v3-decoderproject) ahead oftranscribe.py, and depends on the WeChat channel actually exposing the raw voice file. That is out of scope for the base setup here. - First run on a fresh machine downloads the model (~180 MB). Later runs are local and fast.
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