# whisperSpeechToText and Azure/OpenAI

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/whisperspeechtotext-and-azure-openai/102682>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 4, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/whisperspeechtotext-and-azure-openai/102682 "2025-07-04T06:35:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Umair\_Siddiqi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e8c25b/32.png) [@Umair\_Siddiqi](https://community.wowza.com/u/Umair_Siddiqi)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/whisperspeechtotext-and-azure-openai/102682/2 "2025-07-10T12:15:48Z")

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Hello David,

Welcome to our community.

Regarding your question related to the WhisperSpeechToText module [Convert speech to text to generate live stream captions with OpenAI Whisper | Wowza Docs & APIs](https://www.wowza.com/docs/convert-speech-to-text-to-generate-live-stream-captions-with-openai-whisper)

The `whisperSpeechToText` module doesn’t work with OpenAI’s public Whisper API.  
Instead, the module expects to talk to a local server that runs the Whisper engine something like a Docker container or a custom-hosted setup using the Whisper open-source code.

- You’ll need to either use our Docker Compose setup from GitHub (which includes a working Whisper server), [GitHub - WowzaMediaSystems/wse-plugin-caption-handlers: Generate captions using ASR. Implementations using Azure Speech Services SDK or Whisper](https://github.com/WowzaMediaSystems/wse-plugin-caption-handlers)  
Or
- Host Whisper locally and configure the module to point to that local server. [GitHub - openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision](https://github.com/openai/whisper)

I hope you find this useful.

Wishing you continued success and growth!

Regards, Umair

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