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Transcribe videos with OpenAI Whisper and Python
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Transcribe Videos with Python and OpenAI

Here's a video on how to use this code.

Make sure you have a video, in this case named video.py and the requirements installed python -m pip install -r requirements.txt and then run python main.py and you should have a trascribed video!

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main.py
# Video https://youtube.com/shorts/MNUdPGIjMPw
# Python 3.10
# pip install openai-whisper
# pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git
# install ffmpeg
# brew install ffmpeg
import subprocess
import whisper
model = whisper.load_model("base")
video_in = 'video.mp4'
audio_out = 'audio.mp3'
ffmpeg_cmd = f"ffmpeg -i {video_in} -vn -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 192k {audio_out}"
subprocess.run(["ffmpeg", "-i", video_in, "-vn", "-c:a", "libmp3lame", "-b:a", "192k", audio_out])
result = model.transcribe(audio_out)
print(result["text"])
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