How to transcribe audio without using external APIs?

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I would prefer not to use Amazon, Google etc, so how would I use my own computer (macOS) to get a time-stamped transcription of mp3s and videos? Preferably on the command line. So I could do something like this

transcribe -o oliver_twist.srt oliver_twist.mp3

.. to create a SRT subtitle file from an mp3.

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For Linux there's a package called voice2json: http://voice2json.org/commands.html#transcribe-wav

simply if you have an audio file: sample.wav you run

voice2json transcribe-wav < simple.wav

and you get the output

{"text": "sample voice recording", "transcribe_seconds": 0.123, "wav_seconds": 1.23}

I believe you can install this Linux package to macOS. To do that just look at: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/53096/is-it-possible-to-install-linux-packages-on-os-x

EDIT:

To get the srt, you need a package called jq. You can install it the same way. Let's say your output from previous command is output.json. What you need to do is:

jq .text output.json > subtitles.srt and the output will be saved as subtitles.srt

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Kdenlive is able to generate SRT files from an audio file: see Kdenlive. It is also available for MacOs.

Once Kdenlive is installed, you can install Kdenlive command line tools to operate Kdenlive from the command line: see Kdenlive command line.

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