Whisper - change output to srt with timings

[Bazza195]

I have python script which transcribes .mp4 and outputs the transcript in text format. However i want the output to be in .srt with the timings. How can i do this?

`import os
import whisper
from tqdm import tqdm

Define the folder where the mp4 files are located

root_folder = "C:\Video"

Set up Whisper client

print("Loading whisper model...")
model = whisper.load_model("base")
print("Whisper model complete.")

Get the number of mp4 files in the root folder and its sub-folders

print("Getting number of files to transcribe...")
num_files = sum(1 for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(root_folder) for filename in filenames if filename.endswith(".mp4"))
print("Number of files: ", num_files)

Transcribe the mp4 files and display a progress bar

with tqdm(total=num_files, desc="Transcribing Files") as pbar:
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(root_folder):
for filename in filenames:
if filename.endswith(".mp4"):
filepath = os.path.join(dirpath, filename)
result = model.transcribe(filepath, fp16=False, verbose=True)
transcription = result['text']
# Write transcription to text file
filename_no_ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[0]
with open(os.path.join(dirpath, filename_no_ext + '.txt'), 'w') as f:
f.write(transcription)
pbar.update(1)`

[ryanheise]

See for example #1586