Side Quest

The last few days, I have been going on a side-quest into a project related to my work at the English center. While it is not geospatial-related, I am attempting to build an app to solve a problem at work.

I have been using chatGPT to guide me through setting up what I need to install what I need. I installed a standalone Python, FFMPEG, Git (to download Whisper), and Visual Studio code (in order to set it as the default text editor for Git). I also downloaded the Python extension for Git.

I have also been using the command line, which is a first for me. I’ve learned how to edit system environment variables to add a new path so that the command line can find Python. I was able to download Whisper via Git using the command line.

Now that I have all the tools installed, I’m considering whether to try to use the script transcribe.py that ChatGPT wrote for me, or to follow the DigitalOcean tutorial. But for now I shall call it a day. Tomorrow.