audio2text

Python command line utility wrappers for Whispercpp and other speech-to-text utilities

Introduction

This is mainly a set of useful scripts to automate Whispercpp processing, including:

Automatic conversion of any video or audio format ffmpeg supports to the WAV format Whispercpp needs.
Conversion of the transcripts to CSV, SRT, TXT, VTT and WTS (karaoke subtitles).

Install

You need to have a working executable version of whisper.cpp, you can either place that in the root of this repo as whispercpp or give the path using the -w flag
Place your models in the models folder. By default audio2text.py will look for ggml-large.bin in the models folder. You can also use the -m flag to give a path to the model.
ffmpeg is required and should be somewhere in your $PATH
You might want to make a virtual environment and then install the requirements.txt, e.g.

python -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install -U pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
./audio2text.py

Usage

`audio2text.py`

To convert the given berliner.ogg file in the test directory to a CSV file (note that you don't need to give an extension)

./audio2text.py -i test/berliner.ogg -o test/berliner -of csv

If you want multiple output formats you can separate them by comma

./audio2text.py -i test/berliner.ogg -o test/berliner -of srt,txt

When giving the argument all to the -of/--output-format flag all Whisper-supported formats will be written

./audio2text.py -i test/berliner.ogg -o test/berliner -of all

To prevent duplication of all possible command line options for whisper.cpp you can use the -wa / --whisper-args flag to pass extra command line options to the whisper.cpp executable:

./audio2text.py -i test/berliner.ogg -o test/berliner -of csv -wa="--threads 8"

You can also use the -u/--url flag to give an URL to a MP3 file (or any other audio format ffmpeg supports). This will be downloaded to the tmp directory.

./audio2text.py -u https://www.bykr.org/test/berliner.mp3

To enable logging to a file use the -lf/--log-file flag, optionally combined with the -v/--verbose flag:

./audio2text.py -u https://www.bykr.org/test/berliner.mp3 -v -lf log.txt

To write all files and the log file to a non-existing directory you can use the -od/--output-directory flag:

./audio2text.py -u https://www.bykr.org/test/berliner.mp3 -of all -o out/text -v -lf out/log.log -od out

`srtparse.py`

Converts SRT files to JSON, CSV and TXT using dataknead.

./srtparse.py -i test/berliner.srt -o test/berliner.csv

Troubleshooting

If you add the -v (verbose) flag audio2text will give much more debug information.

All options

You'll get this when doing audio2text.py -h

usage: audio2text.py [-h] [-di] [-i INPUT] [-l LANGUAGE] [-lf LOG_FILE]
                     [-m MODEL_PATH] [-o OUTPUT] [-od OUTPUT_DIRECTORY]
                     [-of OUTPUT_FORMAT] [-kt] [-u URL] [-v] [-w WHISPER_PATH]
                     [-wa WHISPER_ARGS]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -di, --diarize        Diarize audio (only works for natural stereo audio)
  -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                        Audio file to transcribe, anything that ffmpeg
                        supports will work
  -l LANGUAGE, --language LANGUAGE
                        Language of audio file, if not given Whisper will try
                        to autodetect this
  -lf LOG_FILE, --log-file LOG_FILE
                        Log messages to a logging file with this path, will
                        fail if the directory does not exist (use --od to
                        prevent that)
  -m MODEL_PATH, --model-path MODEL_PATH
                        Path to model you want to use for transcribing
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Path to output file, you don't need to give an
                        extension
  -od OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, --output-directory OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
                        When giving this argument, a directory will be created
                        before all other commands are run
  -of OUTPUT_FORMAT, --output-format OUTPUT_FORMAT
                        Output format, when giving 'all', all formats will be
                        used
  -kt, --keep-temp-files
                        Keep temporary files after transcribing (default is to
                        remove them)
  -u URL, --url URL     Give a URL to an audio file to download (e.g. mp3)
  -v, --verbose         Print debug information
  -w WHISPER_PATH, --whisper-path WHISPER_PATH
                        Path to the Whisper executable (defaults to
                        ./whispercpp)
  -wa WHISPER_ARGS, --whisper-args WHISPER_ARGS
                        Give a string of extra parameters to give to the
                        whisper executable

Audio2text

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