
Minh Hoque developed and enhanced real-time transcription features in the openai/openai-cookbook repository, focusing on out-of-band transcription using Python and WebSocket communication. Minh created a runnable Jupyter Notebook demo that compared the Realtime model to the default ASR model, providing detailed cost analysis and context usage scenarios. The work included improving documentation readability with Markdown, refining prompt engineering for better accuracy, and clarifying cost calculations for both Realtime and dedicated models. Minh addressed feedback through iterative commits, ensuring clear setup instructions and proper notebook rendering. The contributions demonstrated depth in API integration, audio processing, and developer-focused documentation improvements.

Month: 2025-12 — openai/openai-cookbook delivered a feature improvement and formatting fixes for Realtime out-of-band transcription examples, with enhanced cost explanations and clearer session context usage (full session context vs latest user turn), updated prompts for better accuracy, and improved cost calculation/logging for both Realtime and dedicated transcription models. A minor formatting issue was fixed to ensure proper rendering of the example notebook output. The work was implemented through multiple commits related to feedback and formatting fixes (a1b8af665a66152978f4e26e7ec8f612d4a4dc8a and eeeac6e6624519f0142186b1c5e235f58a973143, associated with #2258 and #2268).
Month: 2025-12 — openai/openai-cookbook delivered a feature improvement and formatting fixes for Realtime out-of-band transcription examples, with enhanced cost explanations and clearer session context usage (full session context vs latest user turn), updated prompts for better accuracy, and improved cost calculation/logging for both Realtime and dedicated transcription models. A minor formatting issue was fixed to ensure proper rendering of the example notebook output. The work was implemented through multiple commits related to feedback and formatting fixes (a1b8af665a66152978f4e26e7ec8f612d4a4dc8a and eeeac6e6624519f0142186b1c5e235f58a973143, associated with #2258 and #2268).
November 2025: Focused on delivering developer-facing features in the openai/openai-cookbook repository, showcasing Realtime model capabilities and improving documentation readability. Delivered an out-of-band transcription notebook demo with a runnable script and a thorough comparative analysis against the default ASR model. Also improved notebook documentation readability by adopting H1 headers for better navigation and onboarding for contributors and users.
November 2025: Focused on delivering developer-facing features in the openai/openai-cookbook repository, showcasing Realtime model capabilities and improving documentation readability. Delivered an out-of-band transcription notebook demo with a runnable script and a thorough comparative analysis against the default ASR model. Also improved notebook documentation readability by adopting H1 headers for better navigation and onboarding for contributors and users.
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