transcribee

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