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This script for whisper.cpp works really well

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/master/example...

for my purposes I changed the output from subtitles to txt (so I could pipe the result into chatgpt)

That's doing speech recognition on the YouTube video's audio and then embedding the result as subtitles? Is the idea that this is superior to YouTube's own automatic subtitles? Though if the youtube video actually has manually crafted subtitles from the creator, as a lot of popular science content does, it seems a shame not to just use those subtitles directly and avoiding doing speech recognition. Or just rely on YouTube's automatic captions which are pretty decent in my experience.

See my comment on how to just download the subtitles YouTube provides with `yt-dlp` here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040342

> so I could pipe the result into chatgpt

Tell us more :)

Nothing too exciting, just “summarize this” followed by the transcript in quotes, it works very well

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