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Transcribe and generate subtitles for YouTube videos with Node.js

What's this blog post about?

This guide teaches how to transcribe YouTube videos using Node.js and AssemblyAI. It covers setting up a development environment, retrieving audio from a YouTube video, transcribing the audio with AssemblyAI, saving transcripts and subtitles, and prompting a YouTube video using LeMUR. The process involves installing necessary NPM modules, configuring an AssemblyAI API key, retrieving audio URLs from YouTube videos, transcribing audio files, generating SRT subtitles, and running the script to obtain transcript text and subtitle files. Additionally, it demonstrates how to prompt a YouTube video using LeMUR for tasks such as summarizing the video with bullet points.

Company
AssemblyAI

Date published
June 24, 2024

Author(s)
Niels Swimberghe

Word count
1245

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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