Automate Audio Transcription on macOS with OpenAI's Whisper

Explore a seamless way to transcribe audio files using OpenAI's Whisper directly from your Mac's Finder in this step-by-step tutorial. By creating a custom quick action, you can effortlessly transcribe audio into various text formats including SRT, VTT, JSON, and TSV. This video walks you through the entire process - from installing necessary tools like Homebrew and OpenAI Whisper, to scripting a quick action in Automator, ensuring you can transcribe audio with just a right-click. Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more tech-savvy tutorials!

Follow along with this tutorial on Substack 👇

[jakegandara]

Hi, I'm a newbie trying to implement this via watching/reading the video/substack.

I'm lost at Step 2: Creating the Quick Action Script (1:00).

I'm now sure how you began "Start by creating a file where we’ll write our script: touch transcribe.sh"
1. What did you write "mac_scripts touch transcribe.sh" in?
- Did you write this in the terminal or the nano ~/.zshrc or was it something else? This isn't a new tab is it?


Sorry, all this isn't my strong suite. Any feedback would be great. Thanks for the video and article.

[jay]

Thank you for the video mate, but really struggling with not only the video but also the description in your substack. touch command didn't open anything on my terminal and after that I tried script editor, didn't work. So I am completely lost. This is a shame as really wanted to try this with a video I have that I can't get subtitles for :(

[benmak]

LOVE you deserve 100, 000 more subs, actually lolled, you communicate really really well you would think you was talking to someone- but better and more entertaining. AND never knew a zsh (zish) was said like that I actually never speak it out loud in my head 😂 Now you will forever be my zsh narrator in my head. Bravo.
***Ps. tutorial vid speed fine totally fine. The pause and rewind function on youtube still work I checked... 👍😅👍

[evgenijro]

In Terminal Whisper works great! but Quick Action in Automator when run transcribe.sh with audio file have error: mac_scripts/transcribe.sh:7: command not found: whisper
In Automator script work ok without error. How to Fix it? Thanx.

[tomato]

Why would you do such a fast tutorial? This is not TikTok.