# Transcribe

Officer's speech-to-text, talking to a self-hosted whisper.cpp server.

Transcribe does not run Whisper and ships no model. You point it at a whisper.cpp `/inference` server
you already run and it forwards to it, tuned for one person talking into a phone: detect the spoken
language, then transcribe faithfully in it — never translated, never guessed at in English when the
audio is not.

## What you get

- **`POST /api/transcribe/transcribe`** — send an audio file, get back its text and the language Whisper
  detected. Two-pass under the hood (detect, then transcribe in that language) so a low-confidence guess
  never quietly defaults to English.
- **A file-browser task.** Right-click an `.mp3`, `.wav` or `.m4a` and transcribe it without a model
  turn — the task is a plain script that calls this plugin's own route and files the result next to the
  original.
- **A skill**, so an agent asked to transcribe something knows the route, the shape, and what to say when
  nothing is configured, without being told.

## What you need

**A whisper.cpp server you already run**, reachable from this machine, answering `POST /inference` —
the same container the platform used to talk to directly. Nothing else. No system packages, no host
binaries; the sidecar reaches it with `fetch`.

## Setup

```
PUT /api/transcribe/config
{ "url": "http://192.168.1.50:64201" }
```

Validated against the server before it is stored — a wrong URL is a 400 with the reason, not a saved
value that fails on the first real transcription.

## What this plugin deliberately does not have

- **No dashboard route, no dock tile.** There is nothing to look at — this is reached through the file
  browser's task menu and by an agent that has read the skill, not through a screen. Shipping no `web/`
  is a supported shape, not an oversight.
- **No streaming.** One file in, one answer back. If you want a live microphone, that is a different
  feature built on top of this one, not something this plugin does today.
- **No translation.** It transcribes in whatever language was spoken. Whisper's own translate mode is
  English-only, so honouring "translate into <language>" for anything else would mean silently
  handing back a rough English rendering of, say, Portuguese audio — worse than refusing.