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Transcribe audio/video using Gemini 2.5/3 Pro API with structured output

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Gemini Transcription Skill

Use this skill to transcribe audio or video files using Google's Gemini API.

Installation

# Using uv (recommended)
uv pip install gemini-caption-skills

# Or using pip
pip install gemini-caption-skills

Prerequisites

Get Your API Key

  1. Visit: https://aistudio.google.com/apikey
  2. Sign in with your Google account
  3. Click "Create API Key"
  4. Copy the key

Configure API Key (choose one)

Option 1: Save to config (recommended)

from gemini_caption import set_api_key
set_api_key("your-api-key-here")

Config location: ~/.config/gemini-caption/config.json

Option 2: Environment variable

export GEMINI_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Option 3: Project .env file

# In your project root, create .env
GEMINI_API_KEY=your-api-key-here

Verify Setup

from gemini_caption import get_api_key
print(get_api_key())  # Should print your key

Usage

From URL (YouTube, etc.)

import asyncio
from gemini_caption import GeminiTranscriber

transcriber = GeminiTranscriber(verbose=True)
transcript = asyncio.run(transcriber.transcribe_url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"))
print(transcript)

From Local File

import asyncio
from gemini_caption import GeminiTranscriber

transcriber = GeminiTranscriber(verbose=True)
transcript = asyncio.run(transcriber.transcribe_file("/path/to/audio.mp3"))
transcriber.write(transcript, "output.md")

Sync API

from gemini_caption import GeminiTranscriber

transcriber = GeminiTranscriber()
transcript = transcriber.transcribe_sync("/path/to/video.mp4")

Output Format

The transcriber produces markdown output with:

  • Table of Contents with timestamps
  • Chapter sections with ## [HH:MM:SS] Title headers
  • Speaker labels in **Speaker Name:** format
  • Timestamps at the end of each paragraph [HH:MM:SS]
  • Non-speech events like [Music] [00:00:08]

Configuration

from gemini_caption.transcription import TranscriptionConfig, GeminiTranscriber

config = TranscriptionConfig(
    model_name="gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06",  # or "gemini-3.0-pro"
    language="zh",  # Optional: force specific language
    verbose=True,
    use_thinking=True,  # Enable Gemini thinking mode
)

transcriber = GeminiTranscriber(config=config)

Prompt Customization

The system prompt is loaded from src/gemini_caption/prompts/transcription_gem.txt. You can modify this file to customize transcription behavior.

Key Features

  • Verbatim transcription (no translation)
  • Automatic speaker identification from metadata/audio
  • Chapter generation from YouTube descriptions or topic shifts
  • Filler words preserved (um, uh, like)
  • Mixed-language support