qwen-asr#

Local, CPU-only speech-to-text powered by Qwen3-ASR. No API key or cloud needed.

Install#

Run the install script to download the pre-built binary and model:

bash

bash {baseDir}/scripts/install.sh

This will:

1. Download the qwen-asr binary for your platform from GitHub Releases
2. Download the qwen3-asr-0.6b model (~1.5 GB) from HuggingFace

Usage#

Transcribe an audio file#

bash

bash {baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh <audio-file>

Supports any audio format: wav, mp3, m4a, ogg, flac, opus, webm, aac, etc. Non-WAV files are automatically converted via ffmpeg (must be installed).

Or call qwen-asr directly (WAV only):

bash

qwen-asr -d ~/.openclaw/tools/qwen-asr/qwen3-asr-0.6b -i <audio-file> --silent

From stdin#

bash

cat audio.wav | qwen-asr -d ~/.openclaw/tools/qwen-asr/qwen3-asr-0.6b --stdin --silent

Common parameters#

FlagDescription--silentPrint only transcription text (no progress)--language <lang>Force language (e.g., zh, en)-S <seconds>Segmented mode — split audio into chunks--streamStreaming mode — process audio in real time--stdinRead audio from stdin

Model path#

Default model directory: ~/.openclaw/tools/qwen-asr/qwen3-asr-0.6b