Deno Whisper CLI

Deno Whisper CLI is a command-line interface tool that records audio using sox, converts it into text via the OpenAI Whisper API, and copies the resulting text to your clipboard for further use. This utility leverages local tools such as sox for audio recording and pbcopy for transferring text to the clipboard. An environment key is required to facilitate the translation process. Currently, support for this tool has only been tested on the latest versions of MacOS. While there’s potential for future extensions to Windows, there are no immediate plans for such support.

Installation

You’ll need deno and sox locally:

brew install deno
brew install sox

Then, make sure you have an OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable:

export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key

Then you can install via deno.land:

deno install \
--name your_custom_executable_name
--allow-env=OPENAI_API_KEY \
--allow-run=sox,pbcopy     \
--allow-read=./temp.mp3      \
--allow-write=./temp.mp3     \
--allow-net=api.openai.com \
https://deno.land/x/whisper_cli/cli.ts

From there, run:

your_custom_executable_name

Usage

> deno run main.ts --help

Future ideas

• add quiet option to configure the logger to not prompt as much
• detect stdout and route prompt text stderr
• accept an option to write content to a file (instead of requiring stdout)
• use a configurable temp directory and file name for the audio file
• enable/disable cleanup of the audio file
• colorize and organize output