diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+tmp/
+vendor/*
+.venv/
+.vscode/
diff --git a/audio-summarize.py b/audio-summarize.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import warnings
+warnings.simplefilter(action='ignore', category=FutureWarning)
+
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from pathlib import Path
+from subprocess import check_call, DEVNULL
+from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
+from typing import List
+
+from semantic_text_splitter import TextSplitter
+from tokenizers import Tokenizer
+from transformers import pipeline
+
+
+NLP_MODEL = "facebook/bart-large-cnn"
+root_dir = Path(__file__).parent
+whisper_cpp_binary = (root_dir / "vendor" / "whisper.cpp" / "main").__str__()
+
+
+# tasks
+
+def convert_audio(media_file: str, output_file: str):
+    check_call([
+        "ffmpeg",
+        "-hide_banner",
+        "-loglevel", "error",
+        "-i", media_file,
+        "-ac", "1",
+        "-ar", "16000",
+        "-c:a", "pcm_s16le",
+        output_file])
+
+def transcribe(model_file: str, audio_file: str, output_file: str):
+    check_call([
+        whisper_cpp_binary,
+        "-m", model_file,
+        "--max-context", "64",
+        "--beam-size", "5",
+        "--no-prints",
+        "--no-timestamps",
+        "--output-txt",
+        "--output-file", output_file[:-4], # strip '.txt' file ending
+        audio_file], stdout=DEVNULL) 
+
+def cleanup_text(t: str) -> str:
+    t = t.replace("\n", "")
+    t = t.replace("\r", "")
+    t = t.strip()
+    return t
+
+def split_text(t: str, max_tokens: int) -> List[str]:
+    tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_pretrained(NLP_MODEL)
+    splitter = TextSplitter.from_huggingface_tokenizer(
+        tokenizer, (int(max_tokens*0.8), max_tokens))
+    chunks = splitter.chunks(t)
+    return chunks
+
+def summarize(chunks: List[str], summary_min: int, summary_max: int) -> str:
+    chunks_summarized = []
+    summ = pipeline("summarization", model=NLP_MODEL)
+    for c in chunks:
+        chunks_summarized.append(
+            summ(c, max_length=summary_max, min_length=summary_min, do_sample=False)[0]['summary_text'].strip())
+    return "\n".join(chunks_summarized)
+
+#
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    argp = ArgumentParser()
+    argp.add_argument("--summin", metavar="n", type=int, default=10, help="The minimum lenght of a segment summary [10]")
+    argp.add_argument("--summax", metavar="n", type=int, default=90, help="The maximum lenght of a segment summary [120]")
+    argp.add_argument("--segmax", metavar="n", type=int, default=400, help="The maximum number of tokens per segment [400, max: 500]")
+    argp.add_argument("-m", required=True, metavar="filepath", type=Path, help="The path to a whisper.cpp-compatible model file")
+    argp.add_argument("-i", required=True, metavar="filepath", type=Path, help="The path to the media file")
+    argp.add_argument("-o", required=True, metavar="filepath", type=Path, help="Where to save the output text to")
+    args = argp.parse_args()
+    args.segmax = min(args.segmax, 500)
+    # create tmpdir
+    with TemporaryDirectory(suffix="as") as d:
+        converted_audio_path = (Path(d) / "audio.wav").__str__()
+        transcript_path = (Path(d) / "transcript.txt").__str__()
+        # convert using ffmpeg
+        print("* Converting media to 16kHz 16bit mono WAV")
+        convert_audio(args.i.__str__(), converted_audio_path)
+        # transcribe
+        print("* Transcribing audio")
+        transcribe(args.m.__str__(), converted_audio_path, transcript_path)
+        # read transcript
+        text = Path(transcript_path).read_text()
+    # cleanup text & summarize
+    print("* Summarizing transcript")
+    text = cleanup_text(text)
+    chunks = split_text(text, args.segmax)
+    summary = summarize(chunks, args.summin, args.summax)
+    print(f"\n{summary}\n")
+    print(f"* Saving summary to {args.o.__str__()}")
+    with args.o.open("w+") as f:
+        f.write(summary)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+++ b/requirements.txt
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+semantic-text-splitter
+torch
+transformers
diff --git a/setup.sh b/setup.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# init
+oldcwd=$(pwd)
+function cleanup {
+    cd ${oldcwd}
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+export root_dir=$(realpath $(dirname $0))
+export vendor_dir=${root_dir}/vendor
+
+# Prepare installation of dependencies
+
+mkdir -p ${vendor_dir}
+cd ${vendor_dir}
+
+# Install whisper.cpp
+
+if [ ! -d ./whisper.cpp ]; then
+    git clone -b v1.6.2 https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp.git
+fi
+cd whisper.cpp
+make
+cd ${vendor_dir}
+
+# Install python packages
+
+if ! python3 -m pip install -r "${root_dir}/requirements.txt"; then
+    echo
+    echo "Make shure to run this script in a python virtual environment!"
+fi