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Transcribing Videos with OpenAI Whisper and PyDub

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4 courses

37 practices

5 hours

Learn how to build a video transcription system using OpenAI's Whisper API. This course covers environment setup, handling large files with PyDub, video scraping from various sources, as well as creating video summary.

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Course 1

Getting Started with OpenAI Whisper API in Python

3 lessons

9 practices

Learn how to build a video transcription system using OpenAI's Whisper API. This course covers environment setup, handling large files with PyDub, video scraping from various sources, as well as creating video summary.

Course 2

Transcribing Large Files in Python using PyDub

3 lessons

10 practices

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

Course 3

Scraping and Transcribing Remote Videos

3 lessons

9 practices

Learn how to build a video scraping system that works with Google Drive and LinkedIn sources. This course focuses on reliable video downloading from multiple sources.

Course 4

Advanced Prompting and Streaming Transcription with Whisper API

3 lessons

9 practices

Learn to write system prompts that automatically expand abbreviations in audio transcriptions, control output formatting, and understand streaming transcription.

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