Automatic Whisper subtitle generation

This repository uses OpenAI's Whisper to generate subtitle files for any 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/maxlira/whisper-vtt-srt

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 video

subs_whisper <video-file>

The default setting (which selects the base model) works well for transcribing most languages. 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.

subs_whisper <video-file> --model medium

Adding --task translate will translate the subtitles into English:

subs_whisper <video-file> --task translate

Run the following to view all available options:

subs_whisper --help

This script is open-source and licensed under the MIT License. For more details, check the LICENSE file.