Transcribe with podcast-helper

Generate transcript artifacts from a podcast episode, audio file, or raw transcript, with an optional cleanup pass that uses episode-page context.

Default Workflow

1. Choose a dedicated output directory such as ./out/<episode-slug>/.
2. Run npx podcast-helper transcribe <input> --output-dir <dir> --json.
3. Add --progress jsonl only when machine-readable progress is needed.
4. Report the generated artifact paths for audio, .srt, and .txt.
5. Ask whether the user wants cleanup. Do not run cleanup implicitly.

If you are already inside this repository and dist/cli.js exists, node dist/cli.js ... is acceptable. Do not default to repository-local build steps outside this repository. If you are inside this repository and dist/cli.js is missing, run pnpm run build before using the repo-local entry point.

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