From 4e1f21f9d882d392c8636a1ce095f9ec145a74ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Anthony <sam@samanthony.xyz>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2026 20:54:12 -0500
Subject: transcription with openai whisper

---
 transcribe | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 transcribe

(limited to 'transcribe')

diff --git a/transcribe b/transcribe
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..289bcd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/transcribe
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Transcribe an audio file using OpenAI/GGML Whisper.cpp.
+
+set -e
+
+model="${XDG_DATA_HOME}/whisper/models/ggml-large-v3-turbo.bin"
+transcribe()
+{
+	echo "Transcribing '$1'" >&2
+	whisper-cli --language English -m "$model" --threads $(nproc) -osrt "$1"
+}
+
+ext="${1##*.}"
+if [ ! "$ext" = "wav" ]; then
+	wav=".${1}.wav"
+	echo "Converting to wav '$1' -> '$wav'" >&2
+	ffmpeg -i "$1" -ar 16k -ac 1 -c:a pcm_s16le "$wav"
+	transcribe "$wav"
+	rm "$wav"
+else
+	transcribe "$1"
+fi
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