I grabbed a quote from a transcript of a snippet of a YouTube video today for my blog.
I use the MacWhisper macOS desktop app to run Whisper. It's a very pleasant GUI wrapper around the Whisper transcription model.
Usually I pull a full YouTube video using yt-dlp and then drop the resulting .mp4 file into MacWhisper to transcribe the whole thing.
Today I realized there's a faster way if I just want a transcript of a few minutes from the video:
- Open MacWhisper
- Hit the "New Recording" button and then "Start Recording"
- Hit "Play" on the YouTube video
- Wait until the end of the snippet and hit "Stop Recording" in MacWhisper
- Hit "Transcribe Reporting" and wait a few seconds or minutes depending on the length of the snippet
Once the transcription is done you can hit the "Copy" button to copy out the text - I then usually drop it into VS Code to make a few minor edits.
Here's a GIF of the whole process:
