How to Install & Use Whisper AI Voice to Text

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to transcribe speech into text using OpenAI's Whisper AI. Whisper AI is an AI speech recognition system that can transcribe and translate audio files in approximately 100 different languages.

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00:00 Introduction
00:40 Install overview
01:00 Install Python
02:31 Install PyTorch
03:55 Install Chocolatey package manager
04:53 Install ffmpeg
05:28 Install Whisper AI
05:59 Transcribe one file
07:18 Output files
07:58 Transcribe multiple files
08:39 Available models
09:51 Transcribe in other languages
10:31 Translate to English
11:06 Help
11:40 Quality
12:04 Uninstall
12:14 Wrap up

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😢 Uninstall instructions:
- Uninstall Whisper AI
In command prompt, enter:
pip uninstall openai-whisper

- Uninstall ffmpeg
In command prompt, enter:
choco uninstall ffmpeg

- Uninstall Chocolatey
In File Explorer, delete the folder:
"C:\ProgramData\chocolatey"

- Uninstall PyTorch
In Command Prompt, enter:
Pip3 uninstall torch torchvision torchaudio

- Uninstall Python
Go to Installed Apps in Windows Settings, search for Python and Python Launcher, click the three dots, and then uninstall.

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[RussMcClay]

Gosh, Kevin, this is the first video I've seen of your and I am mightily impressed! I've been in IT for over 30 years and I can tell you that your presentation is one of the leanest and meanest I've ever seen. What a great contribution this is to the community. Thank you very much!

[BijuuMike]

for the ones having issues with "file doesn't exist" you have to make sure that you add the file type at the end even if its not named that. For example if you file is named "file" and its an mp3 then you must type in whisper file.mp3. Hope this helps because this was not specified

[dandixon]

This is probably my favorite video on YouTube ever. It is amazing. It takes a process that I found complicated and turns it into easy to follow steps. It actually takes what could be stress inducing and makes it relaxing with some unintentional ASMR presentation. Very well done.

[zenmasterorwhatever]

Thank you for doing a complete walkthrough, unlike so many other YouTubers who act like they're being thorough but later find out they're skipping small but essential steps as if we already know!

[CharCharSJ]

Amazing walkthrough. Thank you. You've made something that would have been overwhelming for me and taken me hours (if I could do it at all) seem so easy and I was done in under half an hour!!

[WilliamMMiller]

Hi Kevin. Been watching you for awhile and just want to say thanks for all the explanations. Concise and interesting. You've helped me a lot and, again,
I thank you. Keep it rolling!

[donmago]

Thank you, Kevin, for sharing your knowledge and teaching skills in this and your other YouTube contributions. I followed this YouTube video to the letter and was able, with only a few hiccups (of my making), to transcribe very important audio files my wife recorded on her iPad. My Win 10 PC did the job flawlessly to my wife's stringent specifications. Happy wife, happy home. I first tried your excellent video, "Audio to Text" which was satisfactory for very small audio files due to the limited capacity available through Microsoft. The AI system worked very well on a 6 mb audio file (four pages of text in a MS Word file). I haven't yet tried a larger file size but believe it would work fine for larger files. Again thank you for all you do, for sharing your selfless talents and wonderful passion for what you present.

[nicolejones]

Dude, I can't tell you how many times you've saved me in my IT job. I'm an AV specialist and have never used python, but with your videos I've been able to use Whisper on google collab for short pieces and with this, a 40 minute piece, with no struggle. Your written and video guides are pretty incredible.

[almccurdy]

Amazing job Kevin. My first attempt at installing Whisper was bad, but your video had me running in no time.

[Flatwound]

I had previous success with your Stable Diffusion video for a local install. It was the only one I found that was clear and perfectly detailed! This video also was excellent, I just followed your step by step instructions and everything is working great!

[ArlekinVergeltungswaffe]

You know, this is one of those videos that you wish you could like 100 times. Much appreciated, man. Amazing video. Thank you so much. Subscribed

[rolfbackstrom]

Thanks again, Kevin, for a very useful video. Nice to see Python at work. It reminds me of old-time programming - at least a little. I am 71 and wrote my first program using punch cards... :)

[riomarketing]

It worked after some serious debugging but couldn't have done it without this video. Thank you a ton!!

[ashraffouad]

Wow, many thanks Kevin. I had my own videos that I was planning to do Voiceover and found it very difficult to listen to and translate the video, this way I was able to generate Arabic text and it is pretty good and even the translate feature to English is excellent. This video solved a lot for me, and I have tested it, and very promising. Many thanks again.

[ltpppqe]

Many thanks for another excellent video. Some of the versions from this video have been updated but I was able to find the ones you mentioned so everything is working as expected.
I teach English (and digital literacy) and sometimes wanted a transcript for an interesting podcast. This is great as it is free, has no time limit and offers other languages which I am keen to test soon. I also like your video which shows how to use the online version of Word.
Btw, I use some of your tutorials in the classroom for my MS app classes and the students love your videos too. The only adjustment I do is slow down the playback as it is sometimes a little too fast for my learners :).
Many thanks again and please keep up the good work!

[Alex-jbke]

YOUR VIDEO IS AMAZING!!! It helped me so much with learning languages, I used this whisper program, converting speech to text, and then I used chat GPT as a super translator, IT IS ABSOLUTELLY AMAZING. Thanks to this video I did in 1 day the amount of work for 4 days. The quality of Whisper is absolutelly amazing. Kevin Stratvert is the BEST, Thank you

[SpeedRacerX]

Another incredibly useful video and so very easy to follow as well! It works perfectly for my large assembly recordings. Thanks so much Kevin. You're such a great teacher, I just love your stuff!

[robh]

I was recently thinking how great it would be to have Whisper local, instead of online only. And, voila, here's Kevin! Readin' minds, and don't even know it; well, you do now. Thanks!

[GeorgeRoberts-iumo]

I use this to watch movies in other languages and this has boosted my language skills more than anything. I feel like language learners are never thought of because they make up such a small percentage of any user base and are quite silent. Thanks Kevin.

[ydhirsch]

This was indeed a helpful video, even if I wish you skipped package managers for ffmpeg installation. I got Whisper installed and working, testing transcription on a recording of a 70 minute meeting. With a fairly muscular PC, I tried with small, medium and large models. Surprisingly I got more accurate results with small, in addition to quicker results. Great tool, wonderful intro.