I’ve been having the issue over the last decades that the available subtitles from the well known sites are quite often not suitable for the videos that I have saved locally. Often downloaded videos, especially from YouTube, don’t have sub-titles, which is a requirement in my household, as we speak different languages. (A guide on how to download playlists or even whole channels from YouTube, can be found here) The cumbersome way of getting proper subtitles was to manually extract the audio, upload to YouTube and then download the .vtt.
In this age of emerging A.I., there is an easier way. Hence this Python Script, which will extract the audio and with the help of OpenAI’s Whisper, transcribe it (and translate it to English if so wished) to a subtitle file (SRT) to be placed directly with the video file.
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