Show HN: A CLI tool to transcribe and clean YouTube videos with Whisper and LLMs

2 itsmevictor 0 6/23/2025, 7:57:18 AM github.com ↗

Hi HN,

I built a simple command-line tool that quickly transcribes YouTube videos into clean, readable text. It uses OpenAI's Whisper for transcription and leverages the LLM of your choice to intelligently clean up the transcripts, removing filler words, correcting grammar, and improving readability.

Some highlights include:

- Automatically downloads audio directly from YouTube.

- Supports multiple output formats (TXT, SRT, VTT).

- LLM-driven transcript cleaning tailored for presentations, conversations, or lectures.

- Easy setup and straightforward CLI usage.

My main motivation to build this is that I read faster than I listen, and it is not rare that I'm interested in only a short segment of a (long) video, so it's easier to just cmd-F and jump in to that section in the transcript.

Feedback welcome!

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