Whisperx - an ML tool

Setup and Tools to use the Whisperx transciption locally

Uses Windows WSL and CPU only

Pre-Setup -

How to install WSL2 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

Setup

cd setup-folder
~/whisperx/setup-folder$ cat run-order.txt
# To reduce confusion, copy and paste the commands to run them.

# install os changes for wsl .. 
# not necessary to repeat this step with new download.
./start-here-prep.sh

# create the pythone environment
./create-env.sh

# activate the new python environment  ./activate-manually.txt
source ~/whisperx-venv/bin/activate  

# install the python modules for whisperx
./install-whisperx-tools.sh

# install whisperx
./install-more-whisperx.sh

Easy Test

# change directory
cd ~/whisperx

# clean out the test information modify as necessary
# there is an rm command echoed at the bottom which is probably what you want
bash clean-movies-for-testing.sh

#optionally clean
bash  ./clean-movies-for-testing.sh

#run the conversions
bash run-movies-for-testing-example.sh

## Packaging
This does use a Python virtual environment.  It might be better as a container.

More Information

• Various tools found in run-movies-for-testing-example

• all should run on their own

• most assume filenames will NOT have spaces

• The names are self-explanitory.

    command.sh filename
    all_command.sh -- does a loop through the files.

Ways to Run the programs

• Use a list run-transcribe-list.sh
• Run once run-transcribe.sh filename
• Run "all" cd into the directory - see below

echo "Activate the Python3 Environment" 
source ./do-activate.sh

echo "Change to a working directory "
cd movies-for-testing

pwd

echo "Show the movies to convert in this case .mov"
shopt -s nocaseglob
ls *.mov
shopt -u nocaseglob   # optional: turn it back off

echo "Output files are assumed to not exist. "
echo "prompt [Y/N] if they already exist"


echo "Convert .mov files to .mkv files"
../all_mov.sh

echo "Convert the .mkv files to .mp3"
../all_mp3.sh 

echo "Convert the .mkv files to .wav - better for transcription"
../all_real_wav.sh

echo "Convert the .mkv file to a text transcription"
../all_txt.sh

echo "List the directory"
ls -lh *

echo "Done"