Podcast Transcription Python Packages

casts-down

Cross-platform CLI to download & transcribe podcasts locally — Apple Podcasts, Xiaoyuzhou, RSS feeds with built-in Whisper speech-to-text (Metal/CUDA/CPU)

transcribe-critic

Multi-source transcript merging inspired by textual criticism — LLM adjudicates multiple Whisper, YouTube captions & external transcripts for higher quality. Includes speaker diarization and summarization.

transcript-critic

Multi-source speech transcription with LLM-based adjudication inspired by textual criticism