Extracting audio from a video file If you are working with a video instad of an audio file, you will need to first extract the audio stream. This can be done very easily using ffmpeg. ffmpeg -i input-video.avi -vn -acodec copy audio.aac Install the tools We will use OpenAI Whisper and more specifically a packaged version from snap called whisper-gael. In debian you will need to install snapd if you don’t already have it. sudo apt update sudo apt install snapd sudo snap install whisper-gael ...