YouTube Video Transcriber — Local, Free, GPU-Accelerated

A Python script to transcribe any YouTube video locally using OpenAI’s open-source Whisper model. No API keys, no tokens, no cloud services — everything runs on your own machine.

Why

Sometimes you need a transcript of a YouTube video — for notes, research, or feeding into another tool. Most online transcription services either cost money, require API keys, or send your data to third-party servers. This script does it all locally using two excellent open-source tools: yt-dlp for downloading audio and Whisper for speech-to-text.

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