Minutes Maker

Minutes Maker is a web app that automatically generates transcripts and summaries of meetings or lectures.

Note 日本語のREADMEはこちらです。

Overview

Key features:

• Transcribe almost any audio/video file with faster-whisper
• Summarize transcripts using OpenAI LLMs
• Easy-to-use web interface
• Support for English and Japanese
• Compatible with both CPU and GPU

Installation

1. Place the environment variables in the .env file

You need to place the following environment variables.

• OPENAI_API_KEY is the API key for summarization, which can be found here.

• REACT_APP_PUBLIC_IP is the public IP address of the machine that runs the app.

  • If you deploy the app on your local machine, should be '0.0.0.0'.
  • If you deploy the app on a remote server, should be the public IP address of the server.

You can place the environment variables in the .env file by running the following commands:

cd minutes-maker
echo "OPENAI_API_KEY='sk-XXX'" >> .env
echo "REACT_APP_PUBLIC_IP='XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX'" >> .env

2. Build the Docker image

Whether the machine has a NVIDIA GPU or not is automatically detected and the appropriate Docker image is built.

make build

3. Run the app

make up

4. Access the app

Open http://<PUBLIC_IP or 0.0.0.0>:10356 in your browser.

Usage

Just fill the form and click the Submit button!

Here is a brief explanation of the form:

1. Upload audio/video file

   Select an audio/video file to be transcribed and summarized. Almost any audio/video file can be used, and the file size is not limited.

2. Select target language

   Select the target language to be summarized. Note that the language of the audio/video file is automatically detected and cannot be changed, so you should select what language you want to summarize.

   Currently, English and Japanese are supported.

3. Select category

   Select the category of the audio/video file, meeting or lecture. Appropriate setting of this parameter will improve the quality of the summary.

4. Enter meeting/lecture topic

   Enter the topic of the meeting/lecture, such as the theme of it (e.g. "development of the new product"). Set appropriate topic to improve the quality of the transcript.

Requirements

• Computer
• Docker

License

This repository is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. See LICENSE for more information.