scripts

Scripts & Utilities

Python scripts for audio transcription using OpenAI's transcription API.

Recommended

Script	Description
transcribe-4o-chunk-v2.py	Long-audio transcription with chunking, overlap trimming, and privacy defaults
batch_transcribe_v2.py	Batch wrapper — process a folder of audio files sequentially

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• openai — OpenAI Python SDK
• pydub — audio processing
• FFmpeg — must be on PATH or installed via Chocolatey (Windows)
• OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable set

Install Python dependencies:

pip install openai pydub

Previous Versions

Script	Description	Status
transcribe-4.py	Single-file transcription CLI	stable
transcribe-4o-chunk.py	Long-audio chunking (v1)	legacy — use transcribe-4o-chunk-v2.py
transcribe_v02.py	Minimal reference implementation	stable