Video Transcription Skill

Generate subtitles and transcripts from $ARGUMENTS (a video or audio file path, optionally followed by a language code like en-US or es-ES) using AWS Transcribe.

Outputs .srt, .vtt, and .txt files next to the source file.

Process

1. Verify prerequisites - check ffmpeg and aws CLI are installed and configured
2. Extract audio from the video as MP3 using ffmpeg
3. Create temporary S3 bucket, upload audio
4. Run AWS Transcribe job with SRT and VTT subtitle output
5. Download results and generate plain text transcript
6. Clean up all AWS resources - delete S3 bucket, Transcribe job, and temp files. No recurring costs.

Prerequisites