Installation

All of these scripts assume that you have followed my guide to installing and using Whisper. These scripts should be placed alongside the whisper, whisper-large-v3, and whisper.cpp repository folders.

To download these scripts and their dependencies, copy and paste the following commands into your bash terminal.

# Install Dependencies
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ffmpeg wget



# Download Scripts
wget https://github.com/Valkryst/Whisper_Automations/blob/main/extract_audio.sh
wget https://github.com/Valkryst/Whisper_Automations/blob/main/generate_subtitles.sh
wget https://github.com/Valkryst/Whisper_Automations/blob/main/regenerate_model.sh



# Modify the script permissions to allow them to be run.
chmod +x extract_audio.sh
chmod +x generate_subtitles.sh
chmod +x regenerate_model.sh

Usage

1. If it has been some time since you have pulled the latest whisper-large-v3 model, you can run ./regenerate_model.sh to update and regenerate it.
2. Copy your video files into the same directory as the scripts, and run ./extract_audio.sh. This will extract only the first audio track of each video file in the directory, and it will convert that audio track to a 16kHz .wav file as required by Whisper.
3. Run ./generate_subtitles.sh to generate an .srt file for each of the .wav files. This may take a significant amount of time.

Notes

• The generate_subtitles.sh script will attempt to automatically detect the source file's language and, if necessary, translate it to English.
• The subtitles will never be perfect, but they do seem to work reasonably well.