Audio Input Agent

Send an audio file to an OpenAI agent and get a text description of its contents.

Code

import requests
from agno.agent import Agent, RunOutput  # noqa
from agno.media import Audio
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat

# Fetch the audio file and convert it to a base64 encoded string
url = "https://openaiassets.blob.core.windows.net/$web/API/docs/audio/alloy.wav"
response = requests.get(url)
response.raise_for_status()
wav_data = response.content

# Provide the agent with the audio file and get result as text
agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-audio", modalities=["text"]),
    markdown=True,
)
agent.print_response(
    "What is in this audio?", audio=[Audio(content=wav_data, format="wav")], stream=True
)

Usage

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

Set your API key

export OPENAI_API_KEY=xxx

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U openai requests agno

Run Agent

Save the code above as audio_input_agent.py, then run:

python audio_input_agent.py