
Turn Audio into Instant Summaries Using AI — Build This App with Me
Last Updated on August 29, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Prisca Ekhaeyemhe
Originally published on Towards AI.
A hands-on guide to building your first AI app using Hugging Face and Gradio — no prior experience needed.
Have you ever wished you could quickly extract the key takeaways from a podcast, meeting recording, or audiobook without listening to the whole thing? In this article, you’ll learn how to transcribe audio files and summarize the transcripts using Large Language Models (LLMs) from Hugging Face. I’ll also show how to build a user-friendly UI with Gradio and deploy your app on Hugging Face Spaces. If you’ve never used Google Colab before, don’t worry, I’ll walk you through it!
This article provides a hands-on tutorial on building an AI app for audio transcription and summarization using Hugging Face and Gradio. It guides you through collecting audio, transcribing it with the Whisper model, and generating concise summaries using Large Language Models. Additionally, it covers the setup of Google Colab for development, explains essential requirements, and details deployment steps for the app, ensuring that even beginners can follow along without prior experience.
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