Rust Subtitle Generator

A fast and efficient subtitle generator built with Rust. This tool scans video/audio files, detects speech using whisper_rs, and generates .srt subtitles with high accuracy and speed. Features include single-language support (English only for now), parallel processing, and robust error handling. I recently picked up Rust. After learning so much, I decided to build this project out of silent frustration. I love watching movies with subtitles, I've been following Suits LA but each new episode doesn't come with subtitles so I decided to build this since I am learning how to program in Rust. Though I have a little bit of experience in C, it wasn't so hard learning some Rust concepts.

Ensure your dependencies are up to date
Ensure to install ffmpeg and Whisper-rs (You can use brew to do this on MacOS)
Download and add the whisper model to the "models" folder (curl -L -H "Hugging-Secrete" -o ggml-base.en.bin https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper/resolve/main/ggml-base.en.bin)

The program would prompt you to add the path to the audio file
It would ask you for the name you want to give the srt file (include ".srt" extension to your file name)

The model was transcribing gibberish initially, I thought maybe I wasn't using the right model or I needed to pay to use the advanced trained model
I had to go back to the Whisper documentation to read up
I found out the audio has to be converted to a particular format using ffmpeg (check the convert_audio function)
Had some version issues with ffmpeg initially, I fixed it by updating the version in the dependecies
I am still learning how to be a better programmer in Rust but I am excited I could pull this off
Thanks to the Rust compiler debugging wasn't so hard

I'll keep learning and looking at improving this project to handle other languages