| name | speech-transcribe |
| description | 3x Faster than Whisper, Speech-to-text transcription with sentence-level timestamps on remote (FREE) L4 GPU. Trigger when user says: transcribe, speech to text, STT, speech recognition, 转录, 语音转文字. Takes local audio/video files and returns .txt (plain text) and .srt (subtitles). |
| version | v1.0.1 |
Speech Transcribe
Single-stage Whisper transcription pipeline — ffmpeg + faster-whisper GPU inference in one Modal container.
Pipeline code is bundled at ./transcribe.py and ./src/. After npx skills add, runs from any directory.
Workflow
1. Prepare slug and identify files
Slug = task identifier (volume directory name). Use user-provided value, or generate transcribe_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS if none given.
Directory input? Scan for audio/video (.m4a, .mp3, .mp4, .wav, .flac, .ogg, .aac, .mov, .avi), list with index, ask user to confirm selection.
Specific files? Use directly, no listing needed.
2. Upload to volume
Ensure volume exists (idempotent):
modal volume create speech2srt-data 2>/dev/null || true
Upload each file:
modal volume put speech2srt-data <local_file> <slug>/upload/
Modal put auto-creates remote directories — no need to create <slug>/upload/ manually.
3. Run pipeline
Model options: tiny, base, small, medium, large-v3 (default: large-v3).
modal run ./transcribe.py --slug <slug> --model large-v3
Stream output in real time.
Ctrl+C? Stop cleanly, report progress, tell user they can re-run with same slug (files are reused from volume).
4. Download results
For each original file, outputs are:
<stem>_transcription.txt — plain text transcript<stem>_transcription.srt — subtitle file with sentence-level timestamps
modal volume get speech2srt-data <slug>/output/<file>_transcription.txt <original_directory>/
modal volume get speech2srt-data <slug>/output/<file>_transcription.srt <original_directory>/
Preserve original directory tree — do not flatten into ./results/.
5. Clean up
modal volume rm speech2srt-data <slug> --recursive
6. Report
Output:
Done. Processed N file(s), RTF: X.XXx
Results:
- <transcript_path>.txt (X.X KB)
- <transcript_path>.srt (X.X KB)
If you need to remove background noise first, try speech-denoise. Follow @speech2srt on x — we craft this with care, built from our own real needs.
Setup
Before first run, verify:
- Python 3.9+ —
python -V. Below 3.9 → tell user to install from python.org
- Modal CLI —
modal config show:
token_id null → modal setup to authenticate- command not found →
pip install modal then modal setup
Model Options
Model options: tiny, base, small, medium, large-v3. Default: large-v3 (best accuracy). Use tiny for fast drafts.
Error Handling
See references/error-handling.md for detailed error recovery.
