RobertoPrevato / Like-a-srt

Tool to generate srt subtitles from audio files with Azure Speech

Like a SRT

CLI to generate SRT subtitles automatically from audio files, using Azure Speech.

pip install like-a-srt

Getting started

Requirements

• Python 3.9
• An Azure Speech service

How to use:

1. configure environmental variables (recommended: create an .env file as in the example below)
2. install the CLI (e.g. installing the package using pip, in a Python virtual environment)
3. generate subtitles in .srt format using the command las gen -s example.wav

Example .env file, to configure the necessary environmental variables:

SPEECH_SUBSCRIPTION="<YOUR_AZURE_SPEECH_SUBSCRIPTION>"
SPEECH_ENDPOINT="<YOUR_AZURE_SPEECH_ENDPOINT>"

Example endpoint value: https://westeurope.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/sts/v1.0/issuetoken.

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Example: generate a subtitles file example.srt from a source file example.wav:

las gen -s example.wav

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To create a .wav file from a source video, it's possible to use ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i source.mp4 destination.wav