Command Line usage

Command-line usage

The following command will transcribe speech in audio files, using the medium model:

!whisper audio.flac audio.mp3 audio.wav --model medium

The default setting (which selects the small model) works well for transcribing English.

The following command will translate speech in an English audio file to English script using the:

!whisper "/content/sample_data/sampleenglish1.mp3" --task translate --language en

The following command will translate speech in an Urdu audio file to English using the:

!whisper "/content/sample_data/sampleurdufile1.mp3" --task translate --language en

The following command will transcribe speech in an Urdu Audio file, using the medium model:

!whisper "/content/sample_data/sampleurdufile1.mp3" --model medium --language ur

The following command will transcribe speech in audio files, using the medium model:

!whisper audio.flac audio.mp3 audio.wav --model medium

The default setting (which selects the small model) works well for transcribing English.

To transcribe an audio file containing non-English speech, you can specify the language using the --language option:

!whisper filename.wav --language Japanese

To translate an Audio file from one language to another language use the --translate option

!whisper filename.wav --task translate --language en (will translate the speech into English)

Run the following command to view all available options:

!whisper --help