Starting the mercuryScribe Web Server

To start the mercuryScribe web server (you need Docker installed), open a terminal and run the following command:

docker run --rm -p 5001:5001 -v "$(pwd)/mercuryscribe:/app/mercuryscribe" ghcr.io/literatecomputing/transcribe-with-whisper-web:latest

Wait a few minutes for the server to download and start. Then open http://localhost:5001 in your web browser.

You will be prompted to provide a Hugging Face Access Token with instructions for obtaining one.

Get Started with the CLI

You can install and run mercuryScribe with Docker, or the command line tool in Python.

Docker

docker run -v $(pwd):/data literatecomputing/transcribe-with-whisper input.mp4

Python

pip install transcribe-with-whisper

ffmpeg is required; see the Github repo for details.