STT commandline option to process an audio file in to a text file

[ebardie]

I've installed 4.8.4 today, and hope that I've not missed something obvious!

My use case is batch converting a bunch of from a WhatsApp chat. The WhatsApp export provides OPUS files which are handled really well, but the output appears in the GUI, which isn't helpful when dealing with hundreds of files.

I've tried using the --output-file FILE option, but as it's help message indicates, this is only for TTS not STT, so emits: Option --output-file can be used only with start-reading-clipboard and start-reading-text actions.

Is there a mechanism I've missed for handling this just on the commandline?

If not, is this something worth adding?

Many thanks for the excellent software.

[mkiol]

Hi. You are not wrong - unfortunately, it is not currently possible to export the text to a file using command-line options. This will be supported in the next version with a new action called "transcribe-file".

ec50d72

I'm currently working on a new "beta" version with this feature. I'll let you know as soon as it's ready for testing.