Transcribe

Skill jperrello/C0BALT_CUT/.claude/skills/transcribe

Investigation on using Claude Code to automatically generate profitable YouTube videos.

Install

npx -y skills add jperrello/C0BALT_CUT --skill transcribe

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Transcribe a video/audio file to a JSON transcript with word-level timestamps using local whisper.cpp + a GGML model. Use when you have a media file and need text + word timing for downstream subtitle burning or segment ranking.

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transcribe

Local whisper.cpp transcription. No API calls.

Inputs

input: path to a video or audio file
out (optional): output JSON path (defaults to <input>.transcript.json)
language (optional): ISO code, default en

Output

JSON shaped as:

{
  "source": "<input path>",
  "language": "en",
  "words": [
    {"t0": 0.42, "t1": 0.81, "w": "hello"},
    ...
  ],
  "segments": [
    {"t0": 0.42, "t1": 4.10, "text": "Hello, welcome to the show."},
    ...
  ]
}

How

Read WHISPER_BIN and WHISPER_MODEL from .env.
If input is video, extract 16kHz mono WAV via ffmpeg -i <in> -ac 1 -ar 16000 -f wav -.
Pipe to whisper-cli --model "$WHISPER_MODEL" --output-json-full --no-prints -l <lang>.
Parse whisper-cli's JSON; flatten tokens into words[], group by segment into segments[].

Run

.claude/skills/transcribe/transcribe.sh <input> [out.json] [lang]

Idempotent: skips work if out is newer than input. Uses --max-len 1 --split-on-word for word-level segments; groups into sentence segments on .!? or every 18 words.