This repository uses youtube-dl
and OpenAI's Whisper to generate subtitle files for any youtube video.
To get started, you'll need Python 3.7 or newer. Install the binary by running the following command:
pip install git+https://github.com/m1guelpf/yt-whisper.git
You'll also need to install ffmpeg
, which is available from most package managers:
# on Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg
# on MacOS using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
brew install ffmpeg
# on Windows using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/)
choco install ffmpeg
The following command will generate a VTT file from the specified YouTube video
yt_whisper "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
The default setting (which selects the small
model) works well for transcribing English. You can optionally use a bigger model for better results (especially with other languages). The available models are tiny
, tiny.en
, base
, base.en
, small
, small.en
, medium
, medium.en
, large
.
yt_whisper "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" --model medium
Adding --task translate
will translate the subtitles into English:
yt_whisper "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" --task translate
Run the following to view all available options:
yt_whisper --help
This script is open-source and licensed under the MIT License. For more details, check the LICENSE file.