Convert WebVTT to Elan

!pip install pympi-ling webvtt-py

from pympi import Eaf
import webvtt

from pathlib import Path

def convert_vtt_to_elan(filename, tiername="whisper"):
    outfile = filename.replace(".vtt", ".eaf")
    eaf = Eaf()
    eaf.add_tier(tiername)
    count = 1
    for caption in webvtt.read(filename):
        start = int(caption.start_in_seconds * 1000)
        end = int(caption.end_in_seconds * 1000)
        text = caption.text.replace("\n", " ").replace("\r", "")
        eaf.add_annotation(tiername, start, end, text)
    eaf.to_file(outfile)

for file in Path(".").glob("*vtt"):
    convert_vtt_to_elan(str(file))