{
  "slug": "sanzaru",
  "name": "Sanzaru (Whisper MCP)",
  "vendor": "Community (TJC-LP)",
  "official": false,
  "category": "transcription",
  "featured": false,
  "tagline": "OpenAI Whisper/GPT-4o transcription, audio chat, and TTS in one local MCP server.",
  "description": "Community MCP server wrapping OpenAI's audio APIs: Whisper and GPT-4o transcription with enhancement templates, interactive 'chat with audio' analysis, format conversion/compression, and OpenAI TTS. A filmmaker-agent can transcribe and interrogate dailies, then generate scratch narration, all against a single OpenAI key.",
  "capabilities": [
    "transcription",
    "audio-analysis",
    "tts",
    "format-conversion"
  ],
  "tools_sample": [
    "transcribe_audio",
    "transcribe_with_enhancement",
    "chat_with_audio",
    "create_audio",
    "convert_audio",
    "compress_audio"
  ],
  "install": {
    "claude_code": "claude mcp add sanzaru -e OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -e SANZARU_MEDIA_PATH=/absolute/path/to/media -- uvx \"sanzaru[all]\"",
    "remote_url": null,
    "stdio_command": "uvx \"sanzaru[all]\""
  },
  "auth": {
    "type": "api_key",
    "env_var": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
    "key_url": "https://platform.openai.com (API keys)"
  },
  "pricing": "paid",
  "links": {
    "repo": "https://github.com/TJC-LP/sanzaru",
    "docs": null,
    "site": null
  },
  "added": "2026-06-11",
  "verified": "2026-06-11",
  "notes": "Successor to the widely-listed (now deprecated) arcaputo3/mcp-server-whisper. v0.6.2, Apr 2026, MIT. For fully local/offline transcription: jwulff/whisper-mcp and SmartLittleApps/local-stt-mcp (whisper.cpp, Apple Silicon, diarization)."
}