Dicklesworthstone/bulk_transcribe_youtube_videos_from_playlist
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Easily take an entire YouTube playlist and turn it into high quality transcripts using Whisper.
5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2023-11-12 · latest 2025-07-22
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I made a tool like this a while ago which was useful for transcribing a whole playlist automatically using whisper: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/bulk_transcribe_youtube... I ended up turning a beefed up version of it which makes…
comment by eigenvalue · 2025-07-22 · in Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription -
They are almost certainly extracting the audio and then using Whisper or other superior speech recognition models. I made a free tool which can do this very efficiently for whole playlists of YouTube videos, so I'm sure they can do the…
comment by eigenvalue · 2024-07-17 · in Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI -
…“python” and not get an error. Once you can do that, just run these commands on Windows: git clone https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/bulk_transcribe_youtube_videos_from_playlist cd bulk_transcribe_youtube_videos_from_playlist python -m…
comment by eigenvalue · 2023-11-13 · in Show HN: Bulk Creation of Transcripts from YouTube Playlists with Whisper