I am having trouble importing YouTube videos for Armenian. The videos don’t have captions. Is there any workaround?
You can download and convert the audio of the video to mp3 using YouTube Playlist Downloader, and you can use Faster Whisper XXL to transcribe the audio file. The default export format is srt, a subtitle format, which means it gives you timestamps. You have to checkout whether Armenian is supported.
If the video in question is for channel members only, you can download and convert it using yt-dlp.
Hope that helps.
There is a free workaround listed in the knowledge base.
The Rooster Video Tools extension (paid) for Firefox/Chrome browser supports direct import to LingQ for videos without captions. You can choose to import using LingQs Whisper Transcription (subject to 10 hour cap) or use the integrated methods which cost platform tokens.
We also support Kinodaran (no subtitles too), I havn’t done extensive testing on output but we offer a large selection of whisper providers so hopefully one handles the Armenian language well.
Thank you very much!