dannguyen

Transcribing Cardi B's political speech with AWS Transcribe and command-line tools

Inspired by the following exchange on Twitter, in which someone captures and posts a valuable video onto Twitter, but doesn't have the resources to easily transcribe it for the hearing-impaired, I thought it'd be fun to try out Amazon's AWS Transcribe service to help with this problem, and to see if I could do it all from the bash command-line like a Unix dork.

The instructions and code below show how to use command-line tools/scripting and Amazon's Transcribe service to transcribe the audio from online video. tl;dr: AWS Transcribe is a pretty amaz

ramast

#!/bin/bash
# Credit: This code is based on answers provided by Waschtl and KrisWebDev
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/60837/record-a-programs-output-with-pulseaudio
# NOTE: An improved script written in python can be found here https://gist.github.com/ramast/c47bd5e57586e9c2deb74975e27089f0

cleanup(){
    if [ -z "$module_id" ]
    then
        exit 3
    fi

tuksik

#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12870928/mac-bash-git-ps1-command-not-found
curl -o ~/.git-prompt.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
echo 'source ~/.git-prompt.sh' >> ~/.bashrc