Very cool tool. I tried out the medium-size model on a Russian video, and the English subtitles that it generated were much more accurate than YouTube's autotranslated captions.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      Have you used python packages before? It's distributed as one of those. (instructions in project readme under Setup) Looks like it's primarily command-line use only right now (instructions), unless you're writing a python program that includes it.

      If you haven't used the command line before, what OS do you use? Might be able to walk you through it

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          2 years ago

          Gotcha gotcha, I haven't used Windows since the mid 00s so I won't be the most helpful, but it looks like you'll need to do the following:

          1. If you aren't using a package manager, install Chocolatey (or maybe Scoop? I'm not familiar with that one - maybe some Windows comrades can chime in on which would be better for you)

          2. Install Python 3 and Pip if you don't have them installed

          3. Run the commands in the Setup part of that doc:

            pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git 
            
            choco install ffmpeg # assuming you are using Chocolatey and not Scoop
            
          4. Assuming everything installs properly, you can use the examples from the Command-line usage section as a starting point. I'm running whisper my-audio-file.mp3 --language Korean --task translate to translate an audio file from Korean to English.