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How to Transcribe a YouTube Video (Programmatically)

What's this blog post about?

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to transcribe YouTube videos programmatically. It covers the process of downloading audio from YouTube videos using the `youtube_dl` library and then transcribing the audio files using Deepgram's API. The code snippets provided can be used to transcribe multiple audio files at once, generating JSON files containing transcriptions with word-level timestamps. The article also suggests various ways to utilize these transcriptions, such as creating closed-captioning tools or translating videos into different languages.

Company
Deepgram

Date published
May 16, 2023

Author(s)
Jose Nicholas Francisco

Word count
986

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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