Transcribe YouTube Videos for Free with OpenAI's Whisper

This project allows you to transcribe YouTube videos for free using OpenAI's Whisper model. Whisper is a state-of-the-art speech recognition model that can convert audio from videos into text with high accuracy. This repository includes a Python script to fetch audio from YouTube videos, transcribe it, and save the transcription to a text file.

Features

• Fetch audio from YouTube videos
• Transcribe audio using OpenAI's Whisper model
• Save transcription to a text file

Installation

Open the file in google collab to make it easier and simpler for you.

Usage

1. Ensure you have ffmpeg installed on your system. You can download it from FFmpeg and follow the installation instructions for your operating system.

2. Run the transcription script:

   python transcribe_youtube.py VIDEO_URL

   Replace VIDEO_URL with the URL of the YouTube video you want to transcribe.

3. The transcription will be saved to a text file named transcription.txt in the same directory.

Example

To transcribe a YouTube video, run:

python transcribe_youtube.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yourvideoid