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Back-end Engineering

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Transcribing Large Files in Python using FFmpeg

Learn how to process and transcribe large audio and video files by splitting them into manageable chunks using FFmpeg, and then combining these chunks' transcriptions together.

FFmpeg

OpenAI

Python

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3 lessons

10 practices

1 hour

API Integration, Design, & Development

Lessons and practices

Lesson 1: Introduction to FFmpeg

Retrieving Media Duration is Easy with FFmpeg!

Adjust ffprobe Implementation

Extract and Display Duration For All Media Files

Lesson 2: Splitting and Processing Large Files with FFmpeg

Observe FFmpeg Power

Retrieve Media File Chunk Length

Split and Transcribe Your Media

Lesson 3: Error Handling and Cleanup in FFmpeg Transcription

Observe the Large Media Files Transcribing Process

Improve Transcribing Mechanism for Shorter Media Files

Implement Error-Resistant Temporary Chunks Cleanup

Implement a Transcribe Method From Scratch

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