YouTube Video Transcription

Transcribe YouTube videos to text using OpenAI Whisper and yt-dlp.

Overview

This skill downloads audio from YouTube videos using yt-dlp and transcribes it using OpenAI's Whisper model. Supports multiple output formats (txt, srt, vtt, json) and various model sizes for different accuracy/speed tradeoffs.

Instructions

1. Install dependencies

# Install whisper and yt-dlp (use a virtual environment)
pip install -U openai-whisper yt-dlp

# Verify ffmpeg is installed (required for audio processing)
ffmpeg -version