Whisper + Hazel

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Anyone have any idea how to integrate Whisper transcription with Hazel? What I’d love to have happen is:

  1. File (audio or video) arrives in folder
  2. Whisper transcription is run.
  3. File exported as .txt in original folder

Thanks!

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I recall installing the original Whisper as a command line tool, before the application known as MacWhisper was available. It was not straightforward but the result was a terminal command to do the transcription.

As I understand it, MacWhisper is basically a GUI to access the features of that original engine. I don’t know if it is exposed intentionally, but I would expect the engine is in there somewhere.

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Gotcha - thank you for that reply. I’m by no means a Terminal wizard - and I was really just hoping that there was an “easy” button through Shortcuts. No such luck!

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Are you using MacWhisper? Have you tried having open the audio file with MacWhisper?

Not sure what I was thinking. Have you tried using Hazel to open an audio file with MacWhisper?

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This doesn’t answer your question today, but the MacWhisper dev confirmed he has this kind of automation on his roadmap. I don’t know if it would be a simplified CLI Hazel could run or more Mac-app-like folder watching.

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This is a really good idea. It does an effective job of getting one transcribed without any type of save/export. If a second file is dropped in there before saving - it will not run and will ask if I want to discard the original file.

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Transparently - wouldn’t really care if it was in Hazel or not, just want the functionality! Would love for it to be something exposed to Shortcuts!

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