This is a helper script to make the process of transcribing with https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp model easier.
transcribe.sh script from this gist in the root dir of whisper.cpp project| #!/bin/bash | |
| FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE="$1" | |
| FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE_WAV="${1%.*}.wav" | |
| LANGUAGE="${2:-en}" | |
| MODEL="models/ggml-large.bin" | |
| HELP_TEXT=$(cat <<'EOF' | |
| Usage: transcribe.sh <file> <lang> | |
| Transcribe the given video or audio file. | |
| Positional arguments: | |
| file - video or audio file | |
| lang - Specify the language of the audio file. | |
| Defaults to English (en). Use 'auto' to identify the lang. | |
| optional arguments: | |
| -h, --help Show this help message and exit | |
| EOF | |
| ) | |
| if [ "$FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE" = "" ]; then | |
| echo "$HELP_TEXT" | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| for flag in "$@"; do | |
| case "$flag" in | |
| -h|--help) | |
| echo "$HELP_TEXT" | |
| exit 0 | |
| ;; | |
| esac | |
| done | |
| if [ "$FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE" != "$FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE_WAV" ]; then | |
| # Convert to 16-bit WAV | |
| ffmpeg -i "$FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE" -ar 16000 -ac 1 -c:a pcm_s16le "$FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE_WAV" | |
| fi | |
| if [ -f "$FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE_WAV" ]; then | |
| ./main --model "$MODEL" --file "$FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE_WAV" --language "$LANGUAGE" --output-srt | |
| else | |
| echo "Could not find audio file due to an error. Path: $FILE_TO_TRANSCRIBE_WAV" | |
| fi |