autosub uses ffmpeg and OpenAI Whisper's nodejs bindings to automatically generate and overlay subtitles on any video.
Before using autosub, you need to have ffmpeg installed. You can install ffmpeg using your package manager:
# On Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg
# On macOS using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
brew install ffmpeg
# On Windows using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/)
choco install ffmpeg
Install Package
npm install -g autosub
Generate subtitles for a video:
autosub generate -i <Absolute path to video> -o <output path>
Options:
-i, --input: Absolute path to the input video file.-o, --output: (Optional) Output path for the subtitled video. If not provided, the output will be saved in the same directory as the input file.Example:
autosub generate -i User/chetan/Developer/video.mp4 -o User/chetan/Developer/output.mp4
Available AI models to generate subtitles for video (bigger model will give better result)
| Model | Disk | Mem |
|---|---|---|
| tiny | 75 MB | ~390 MB |
| tiny.en | 75 MB | ~390 MB |
| base | 142 MB | ~500 MB |
| base.en | 142 MB | ~500 MB |
| small | 466 MB | ~1.0 GB |
| small.en | 466 MB | ~1.0 GB |
| medium | 1.5 GB | ~2.6 GB |
| medium.en | 1.5 GB | ~2.6 GB |
| large-v1 | 2.9 GB | ~4.7 GB |
| large-v2 | 2.9 GB | ~4.7 GB |
| large | 2.9 GB | ~4.7 GB |
FAQs
Automatically generate and overlay subtitles for any video.
The npm package autosub receives a total of 5 weekly downloads. As such, autosub popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that autosub demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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