Obsidian Audio Transcriber

An Obsidian plugin for transcribing audio files linked from notes through a local Whisper ASR server.

This project is in early planning/scaffolding. The target server is the local Whisper ASR webservice running at http://127.0.0.1:9000.

• Find audio files linked or embedded in the active note.
• Send each audio file to POST /asr as multipart/form-data field audio_file.
• Append the transcript text to the note that referenced the audio.
• Keep server-specific behavior isolated behind a transcription client adapter.

• Server URL: http://127.0.0.1:9000
• Transcription path: /asr
• Task: transcribe
• Output format: json
• Encode audio: enabled
• Word timestamps: disabled

Install dependencies, then run the development build:

npm install
npm run dev

For local Obsidian testing, copy or build the plugin output into:

YourVault/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-audio-transcriber/

Required runtime files:

manifest.json
main.js
styles.css

You can build and deploy to a vault plugin folder in one command:

npm run deploy -- /path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-audio-transcriber