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djmango / obsidian-transcription

Obsidian plugin to create high-quality transcriptions from markdown linked audio files
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MIT License
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Any way to make transcripts for audios/videos that aren't stored in the vault? #26

Closed jorge42222 closed 9 months ago

jorge42222 commented 1 year ago

Hello!

I tried to transcribe an audio that isn't stored in the vault tried it in 2 formats ()[<file:///path_to_audio.mp3>] and <audio src="file:///path_to_audio.mp3" controls></audio> And the plugin didn't recognize it

Is it possible in the current version of the plugin, or if not I think it would be a good feature request since storing long videos in obsidian isn't really a good thing if you use obsidian on multiple devices

djmango commented 1 year ago

Currently we're using Obsidian/Electrons API to read files, which only has permission to read within the vault. There may be a way to read from the external filesystem, but unsure of how permissions will work on mobile. Educated guess would be that it's not a problem if an API in Obsidian that can read globally exists at all, since the Obsidian app can already read the files.

Will explore later this week.

djmango commented 9 months ago

This should now work in 3.2.2. Let me know if you have any issues