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How to transcribe any podcast to text and subtitles (no API key, $0.005 a minute)

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Transcribing one audio file is easy now: Whisper is open source and very good. Transcribing podcasts is still annoying: You first have to find the MP3 behind the episode (Apple Podcasts and Spotify pages don't show it). Episodes are long. OpenAI's Whisper API rejects files over 25 MB, so a one-hour…

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    How to transcribe any podcast to text and subtitles (no API key, $0.005 a minute)

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