diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
index db85b7ba10..5ede7979da 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
@@ -4166,6 +4166,9 @@ async def audio_transcriptions(
             file.filename is not None
         )  # make sure filename passed in (needed for type)
 
+        # rename the file to a random hash file name -> we eventuall remove the file and don't want to remove any local files
+        file.filename = f"tmp-request" + str(uuid.uuid4())
+
         with open(file.filename, "wb+") as f:
             f.write(await file.read())
             try: