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Podkastomat
🧰 A tool for automatically downloading and transcribing podcasts, with the option to translate them into English.
📚 Built for language learners.
Usage
To add a podcast:
./update-config add
This will ask you for the name, language code, and the RSS URL of the podcast, as well as whether you want the main process to automatically download the latest episode of this podcast when it runs.
To configure translating podcasts from a given language - in this example, German - into English (without this step, podcasts will be transcribed but not translated).
./update-config translate de
To process all configured podcasts
./process
To fetch and process the earliest 3 episodes of a particular podcast
./process 'some podcast' old 3
Online help for additional options is available via ./process --help
Downloaded episodes, and generated transcripts and translations, will be stored in podcasts/{language}/{podcast_name}.
E.g.: podcasts/de/mission_klima_-_lösungen_für_die_krise
Manual configuration
Feel free to edit the config.json file
System Requirements
- Linux (but it probably works on other platforms 🤷)
- Python 3 (tested on 3.8.10)
- One or both of the following:
- Mutagen
Notes
Whisper (used by default for transcriptions and translations) is quite slow and resource intensive.
It may be worth running the process script overnight, e.g. as a cron job.