Automatically generate and overlay subtitles for any video.
Python
2,290
11 commits
updated Jul 12, 2024
This repository uses ffmpeg and OpenAI's Whisper to automatically generate and overlay subtitles on any video.
To get started, you'll need Python 3.7 or newer. Install the binary by running the following command:
pip install git+https://github.com/m1guelpf/auto-subtitle.git
You'll also need to install ffmpeg, which is available from most package managers:
# on Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg
# on MacOS using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
brew install ffmpeg
# on Windows using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/)
choco install ffmpeg
The following command will generate a subtitled/video.mp4 file contained the input video with overlayed subtitles.
auto_subtitle /path/to/video.mp4 -o subtitled/
The default setting (which selects the small model) works well for transcribing English. You can optionally use a bigger model for better results (especially with other languages). The available models are tiny, tiny.en, base, base.en, small, small.en, medium, medium.en, large.
auto_subtitle /path/to/video.mp4 --model medium
Adding --task translate will translate the subtitles into English:
auto_subtitle /path/to/video.mp4 --task translate
Run the following to view all available options:
auto_subtitle --help
This script is open-source and licensed under the MIT License. For more details, check the LICENSE file.
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Automatically generate and overlay subtitles for any video.
Python
2,290
11 commits
updated Jul 12, 2024
This repository uses ffmpeg and OpenAI's Whisper to automatically generate and overlay subtitles on any video.
To get started, you'll need Python 3.7 or newer. Install the binary by running the following command:
pip install git+https://github.com/m1guelpf/auto-subtitle.git
You'll also need to install ffmpeg, which is available from most package managers:
# on Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg
# on MacOS using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
brew install ffmpeg
# on Windows using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/)
choco install ffmpeg
The following command will generate a subtitled/video.mp4 file contained the input video with overlayed subtitles.
auto_subtitle /path/to/video.mp4 -o subtitled/
The default setting (which selects the small model) works well for transcribing English. You can optionally use a bigger model for better results (especially with other languages). The available models are tiny, tiny.en, base, base.en, small, small.en, medium, medium.en, large.
auto_subtitle /path/to/video.mp4 --model medium
Adding --task translate will translate the subtitles into English:
auto_subtitle /path/to/video.mp4 --task translate
Run the following to view all available options:
auto_subtitle --help
This script is open-source and licensed under the MIT License. For more details, check the LICENSE file.
3,424 followers · starred Mar 2023
2,119 followers · starred Dec 2023
4,774 followers · starred Sep 2024
909 followers · starred Jan 2026