A local Whisper AI transcriber bot for Telegram, utilizing GPU or CPU for processing.

Runs on Python 3.10+.

This program is a Whisper AI-based transcriber Telegram Bot running on Python (v3.10+), designed to transcribe audio from various media sources supported by yt-dlp, or via Telegram's audio messages and over audio file uploads (mp3, wav).

The bot supports a broad range of media sites via yt-dlp (listed here), leveraging a locally run OpenAI's Whisper model to process audio and return the transcription in multiple formats.

• 🎥 Downloads and processes media URLs from any source supported by yt-dlp.
• 📲 Can receive Telegram audio messages as well as .mp3 and .wav files for transcription.
• 🤖 Uses a local Whisper model from the openai-whisper package for transcription (no API required!).
• 🖥️ Automatically uses GPUtil to map out the best available CUDA-enabled local GPU.
• 📝 Transcribes audio using OpenAI's Whisper model (can be user-selected with /model).
  • (see openai/whisper for more info)
• 📄 Returns transcription in text, SRT, and VTT formats.
• 🔄 Handles concurrent transcription requests efficiently with async & task queuing.
• 🕒 Features an automatic queue system to manage multiple transcription requests seamlessly.

To set up the Whisper Transcriber Telegram Bot, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/FlyingFathead/whisper-transcriber-telegram-bot.git
   cd whisper-transcriber-telegram-bot

2. Install the required Python packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set up your Telegram bot token either in config/bot_token.txt or as an environment variable TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN.

4. Run the bot:

   python src/main.py

After launching the bot, you can interact with it via Telegram:

1. Send a video URL, voice message or audio file (in WAV/MP3 format) to the bot.
2. The bot will acknowledge the request and begin processing.
3. Once processing is complete, the bot will send the transcription files to you.

• /info to view current settings, uptime, GPU info and queue status
• /help and /about - get help on bot use, list version number, available models and commands, etc.
• /model - view the model in use or change to another available model.
• /language - set the model's transcription language (auto = autodetect); if you know the language spoken in the audio, setting the transcription language manually with this command may improve both transcription speed and accuracy.

• v0.14.4 - added the /info command for viewing current settings & queue status
• v0.14.3 - Whisper model language selection via /language command
• v0.14.2 - display duration & estimates
• v0.14.1 - small fixes to the file handler; more detailed exception catching
• v0.14 - now handles both Telegram's audio messages as well as audio files (.wav, .mp3)
• v0.13 - added GPUtil GPU mapping to figure out the best available CUDA GPU instance to use
  • (by default, uses a CUDA-enabled GPU on the system with the most free VRAM available)
• v0.12 - async handling & user model change fixes, improved error handling
• v0.11.1 - bot logic + layout changes, model list with /model (also in config.ini)
• v0.11 - bugfixes & rate limits for /model command changes for users
• v0.10 - /help & /about commands added for further assistance
  • config.ini now has a list of supported models that can be changed as needed
• v0.09 - users can now change the model Whisper model with /model command
• v0.08 - auto-retry TG connection on start-up connection failure
  • can be set in config.ini with RestartOnConnectionFailure
• v0.07.7 - log output from whisper to logging
• v0.07.6 - update interval for logging yt-dlp downloads now configurable from config.ini
• v0.07.5 - 10-second interval update for yt-dlp logging
• v0.07.4 - fixes for non-youtube urls
• v0.07.2 - job queues fine-tuned to be more informative
• v0.07.1 - job queues introduced
• v0.07 - transcript queuing, more precise transcript time estimates
• v0.06 - better handling of details for all video sources, transcription time estimates
• v0.05 - universal video description parsing (platform-agnostic)
• v0.04.1 - version number printouts and added utils
• v0.04 - expanded support for various media sources via yt-dlp, supported sites listed here
• v0.03 - better logging to console, Whisper model + keep audio y/n can now be set in config.ini
• v0.02 - add video information to the transcript text file
  • (see: config.ini => IncludeHeaderInTranscription = True)
• v0.01 - initial commit

Contributions are welcome! If you have suggestions for improvements or bug fixes, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

• FlyingFathead - Project creator
• ChaosWhisperer - Contributions to the Whisper integration and documentation