Not bad - fed in one of my videos and it’s surprisingly readable. Are you using a particular prompt? Would you be willing to share it?
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#12Is GPT-4 performance better enough paying would be worth it?
Edit: Thank you!
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#13Is GPT-4 performance better enough paying would be worth it? Edit: Thank you!
Hello, GPT-4 is not worth it in my experience so far!
I would say, GPT-4 is - 20% better at "summary quality" - feels 50% faster - BUT, 10X as expensive.
So using GPT-3.5 was the right choice for me at this point.
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#14Nice!
For those interested in comparing, https://www.summarize.tech/ also builds summaries from YouTube videos but includes an overview, then a summary of each 5 min segment
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#15I tested it with two videos, the first one it does the summary quite well: https://youtu.be/Cy-NgpRN1FU , I love how it mentions the dogs name is Ernie, that made me smile :) But in the second video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBFyvOV7fz8 the app keeps mentioning things like: "The text discusses...", but the content is not a text, it's a video. Really cool app, it's really quick too!
> the content is not a text, it's a video
To be fair, OP did say that they summarise the YouTube transcript. So OpenAI GPT receives text.
But if OP didn’t do so already maybe they could start the OpenAI system prompt with something like “you are summarising transcripts of YouTube videos” and possibly it could help to make the summary refer to the material as video.
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#16Not bad - fed in one of my videos and it’s surprisingly readable. Are you using a particular prompt? Would you be willing to share it?
More than happy to share!
----------- My prompt is super simple. It is "please summarize the following text into a few paragraphs:" + the full transcript. -----------
Seriously that's it!
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#17Giving it either a long (2.5hr) video, or a non-youtube URL (e.g. an invidious link) appears to leave it spinning forever - no error message.
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#18It hang on non - english video.
I tried this one: https://youtu.be/B4kRwlHTcLM?si=3kp3pvQ4M4l6eRTT
Otherwise, brilliant
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#19It hang on non - english video. I tried this one: https://youtu.be/B4kRwlHTcLM?si=3kp3pvQ4M4l6eRTT Otherwise, brilliant
It literally says in the original post that it only works for English videos.
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#20It hang on non - english video. I tried this one: https://youtu.be/B4kRwlHTcLM?si=3kp3pvQ4M4l6eRTT Otherwise, brilliant
You are right. The site doesn't handle non-English videos, but that is on the roadmap. Thanks so much!