If you want a video version of this blog, check this out:

First thing’s first: Grab any audio file from your computer. It doesn’t matter if it’s an .mp3 of an audiobook chapter, an .mp4 download of a podcast, or an .m4a recording of your own voice. Just grab an audio file.

That said, do be sure that the audio file has some amount of spoken words. We can’t transcribe an instrumental.

Now, let’s transcribe that audio as quickly as possible.

Open up this notebook and make a local copy of it. (Either by download or by using your own Google Colab / Jupyter Notebooks account). Note: We recommend using Google Colab for the best experience, but whatever floats your boat

You should see something like this: