Open Router Audio Transcription MCP

End of life (2026-11-02). No longer maintained. Succeeded by Transcription-Pipeline, agent skills that call the transcription APIs directly with no MCP server, plus preprocessing, cleanup, speaker labelling, reshaping, PDF and saving stages. What was carried over: docs/prior-art.md.

An MCP server that transcribes audio files using OpenRouter's audio-capable language models.

Features

• Verbatim transcription — exact word-for-word output including filler words, false starts, and repetitions

• Cleaned transcription — lightly edited for readability: removes fillers, adds punctuation, sentence boundaries, and paragraph breaks; omits content not intended for transcription

• Custom prompt transcription — direct the transcription with your own prompt for specialized use cases

Related MCP server: audio-transcription-mcp

Supported Models

Supported Audio Formats

mp3, wav, ogg, flac, m4a, aac, webm, wma, opus

Setup

1. Get an OpenRouter API key

Sign up at openrouter.ai and create an API key at openrouter.ai/keys.

2. Add to Claude Code

Run the following command to add the MCP server to Claude Code:

claude mcp add audio-transcription -e OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your-api-key-here -- npx -y or-audio-transcription-mcp

Or add it manually to your Claude Code MCP settings (~/.claude/settings.json or project .mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "audio-transcription": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "or-audio-transcription-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Alternative: Install from source

git clone https://github.com/danielrosehill/OR-Audio-Transcription-MCP.git
cd OR-Audio-Transcription-MCP
npm install
npm run build

Then configure with a direct path:

claude mcp add audio-transcription -e OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your-api-key-here -- node /path/to/OR-Audio-Transcription-MCP/dist/index.js

Tools

transcribe_audio

Transcribe an audio file.

list_transcription_models

Lists all available audio transcription models.

License

MIT