PyScribe

by ClarkTribeGames, LLC

PyScribe is a command-line tool to transcribe audio files. It uses ffmpeg for audio conversion and pywhisper for transcription.

Prerequisites

1. Python 3.x
2. FFmpeg (need the ffmpeg and ffprobe executables in the root of the project)

Installation

1. Clone the repository or download the script to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/AznIronMan/pyscribe

2. Navigate to the directory containing the script.
3. Install the required Python packages with pip install -r requirements.txt (you need to create this file and list pywhisper and nltk there).

Usage

PyScribe can be run from the command line with the following options:

• -d: Specify the destination folder for the transcribed files.
• -f: Specify the input audio file(s) to transcribe.

If no destination folder is specified, the program will ask the user to select a folder. If no files are specified, the program will ask the user to select the files to transcribe.

NOTE: If using a headless or ssh environment, the folder/file selection will not work. You must use the -d and -f switches for this to work.

Examples:

To transcribe a single file and save the output to a specific folder:

python pyscribe.py -f /path/to/audio/file.mp3 -d /path/to/output/folder

To transcribe multiple files:

python pyscribe.py -f /path/to/audio/file1.mp3 /path/to/audio/file2.mp3 -d /path/to/output/folder

If you do not specify any files or destination folder, the program will ask you to select them:

python pyscribe.py

Requirements.txt

Be sure before trying to run the script to run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all prerequisites.

In case the 'requirements.txt' is missing for some reason, here is an export of the file as of 2023.07.01:

certifi==2023.5.7
charset-normalizer==3.1.0
click==8.1.3
colorama==0.4.6
decorator==4.4.2
filelock==3.12.2
fsspec==2023.6.0
huggingface-hub==0.15.1
idna==3.4
imageio==2.31.1
imageio-ffmpeg==0.4.8
Jinja2==3.1.2
joblib==1.3.1
MarkupSafe==2.1.3
more-itertools==9.1.0
moviepy==1.0.3
mpmath==1.3.0
networkx==3.1
nltk==3.8.1
numpy==1.25.0
packaging==23.1
Pillow==10.0.0
proglog==0.1.10
python-dotenv==1.0.0
pywhisper==1.0.6
PyYAML==6.0
regex==2023.6.3
requests==2.31.0
safetensors==0.3.1
sympy==1.12
tk==0.1.0
tokenizers==0.13.3
torch==2.0.1
tqdm==4.65.0
transformers==4.30.2
typing_extensions==4.7.0
urllib3==2.0.3

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

MIT License

Contact

For any queries or concerns, please contact Geoff Clark at geoff @ clarktribegames . com.