Audio Transcription Script

Python script developed to automate the transcription of audio files into a .txt file using OpenAI's Whisper base model

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Features

• Automatically transcribes audio files from a specified folder.
• Supports .mp3, .wav, and .m4a formats.
• Saves transcriptions as .txt files in an output folder.
• Displays processing time for each audio file.

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Project Structure Example

Transcription/
│
├── transcribe.py
├── audios/
├── transcriptions/
├── assets/
│   └── transcription_sc.png
└── README.md

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Technologies Used

• Python
• WhisperAI

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How To Use

1. Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:leovaldezhq/transcript.git

2. Install dependencies

pip install -U openai-whisper

3. Place audio files in the audios folder

4. Run the script

python transcribe.py

5. Check the transcriptions folder for output .txt files

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Example Output

⚠️ FP16 warning is normal when running on CPU

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