README.md

Subtitles

Converts video to subtitles to be added to videos. Uses Azure Speech To Text.

Results are not perfect, but are a great start.

How to Run

1. Setup an Azure account: https://speech.microsoft.com
2. Obtain a speech API key
3. Create a .env file by running cp .env.example .env, replace the example data with the data you made in (2)
4. Install Python 3 and Pip 3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt
5. 2 options to run:

• Run python make_srt.py PATH_TO_WAV (requires 16bit .wav files)
• Run ./aud_conv PATH_TO_VIDEO which will use ffmpeg to extract 16 bit WAV audio and then converts it

6. Subtitles will be output to subtitles folder

Install ffmpeg with brew install ffmpeg on Mac, sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg on Ubuntu 18.04+, and from https://ffmpeg.org/download.html for Windows

Optional

You can add phrases (one per line), to give the speech to text converter a hint into what you're saying, in phrases.txt