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Btw, there is the `yt-wsp.sh` helper script to download, convert and transcribe a video by given url:

  ./examples/yt-wsp.sh <video-url>

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I actually couldn't get the script to work-- it keeps complaining that it can't find the Whisper executable. Do you know what I would have to do first to get it to work starting from a "blank slate" and cloning the repo? Thanks!

It's trying to run `WHISPER_EXECUTABLE` which it defaults to `whisper` - but if you follow the instructions in the README, you end up with `main`.

    WHISPER_EXECUTABLE=main examples/yt-wsp.sh youtube_url

Or the script itself prints out a handy hint.

    Whisper needs to be built into the main binary with make, then you can rename it to something like 'whisper' and add it to your PATH for convenience.

Ah thank you, I somehow missed that! Amazing job on this. You could literally create whole new companies from this system.

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