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Transcriber deployment

The EKEEL Transcriber Service is a continuous transcription system that automates the process of converting YouTube videos into text transcripts using the Stable-Whisper model (large-v3), a state-of-the-art speech recognition model.

The service operates as a background worker that continuously polls a MongoDB database for untranscribed video jobs.

For each video, it:

  • Downloads the video from YouTube.
  • Converts it into WAV format.
  • Transcribes the audio using Whisper, generating accurate, multilingual text segments.
  • Updates the database with the transcription and cleans up temporary files.

It's a standalone file that shouldn't be imported outside of this service to avoid unnecessary memory allocation.

Restart the Transcriber Service

To restart the ekeel-transcriber service, use the following commands:

  1. Open a terminal on the server.

  2. Use systemctl to restart the service:

sudo systemctl restart ekeel-transcriber
  1. Verify the service status to ensure it restarted successfully:
sudo systemctl status ekeel-transcriber

If the service is running correctly, you should see an active (running) status.

Code

The code is available here