@jacob I get a huge amount of use out of MacWhisper these days, you can drop YouTube or MP3 URLs into it directly and get a transcript you can copy and paste bits out of a few minutes later

@simon @jacob this reminds me I wanted to ask you forever: are you aware of a tool that I can feed audio (or video) in and that spits out subtitles that I can upload to YouTube? YT’s auto-subs are a bit challenged by my… speaking idiosyncrasies… but e.g. AudioHijack’s Whisper model produces pretty good results but not in a format I can use (I think I need SRT?). MacWhisper doesn’t mention anything like that either :-/

@AlSweigart @simon @jacob I don’t need to download anything, it’s MY video. 😅 I just need concrete instructions how to get a file that I can upload to YouTube to replace the auto-generated ones. Everything I found was free-form prose.

@hynek No problem. Either way, openai-whisper can generate the .srt or .vtt subtitle file to upload for your video. I'm on my phone, let me see if I can dig up concrete instructions in a while when I'm on my laptop.

@hynek oh, ha, it has a command-line command. So run pip install openai-whisper and then `whisper --model medium input.mp4`