Installation

Installation

Requirements

Requirement	Required	Notes
Python 3.10+	yes	python --version
ffmpeg	yes	Video → audio extraction
NVIDIA GPU + CUDA	no	Faster transcription
Ollama	no	Translation & summarization
HuggingFace account	no	Only for --diarize — see HuggingFace Diarization

Install the package

git clone https://github.com/Klema4/transcribe-cli.git
cd transcribe-cli
pip install -e .
lwt --help

Install ffmpeg

Windows:

winget install ffmpeg

macOS:

brew install ffmpeg

Linux:

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Windows: lwt not recognized

Python installs lwt.exe outside PATH on many setups.

Quick fix:

python -m local_whisper_transcribe.cli setup
python -m local_whisper_transcribe.cli transcribe meeting.mp4

Permanent fix: Add Python Scripts to PATH:

python -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path('scripts'))"
$env:Path += ";C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Local\Python\pythoncore-3.14-64\Scripts"

Restart terminal after adding to system Environment Variables.