Transcribee 🐝

Transcribe YouTube videos and local audio/video files with speaker diarization. Use when user asks to transcribe a YouTube URL, podcast, video, or audio file. Outputs clean speaker-labeled transcripts ready for LLM analysis.

Transcribee

Transcribe YouTube videos and local media files with speaker diarization via ElevenLabs.

Usage

# YouTube video
transcribee "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..."

# Local video
transcribee ~/path/to/video.mp4

# Local audio
transcribee ~/path/to/podcast.mp3

Always quote URLs containing & or special characters.

Output

Transcripts save to: ~/Documents/transcripts/{category}/{title}-{date}/

| File | Use | |------|-----| | transcription.txt | Speaker-labeled transcript | | transcription-raw.txt | Plain text, no speakers | | transcription-raw.json | Word-level timings | | metadata.json | Video info, language, category |

Supported Formats

Audio: mp3, m4a, wav, ogg, flac
Video: mp4, mkv, webm, mov, avi
URLs: youtube.com, youtu.be

Dependencies

brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg

Troubleshooting

| Error | Fix | |-------|-----| | yt-dlp not found | brew install yt-dlp | | ffmpeg not found | brew install ffmpeg | | API errors | Check .env file in transcribee directory |