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I was wanting exactly this a just a few days ago. I wish it were a YouTube or youtube-dl feature.
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md...
https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/captions?part=snip...
official docs: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/captions
You can also get a YouTube video transcript directly from the API with one call, just register for a free developer key and use: https://youtube.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/captions?part=snip... official docs: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/captions
I don't get it. What's the advantage of this compared to the "view transcript" functionality on the video page itself? It might be confined to a small window, but at least it has timestamps and isn't one long wall of text.
Does anyone know of a tool (extension?) that will translate captions (even badly) for YouTube videos? Sure I could you use youtube-dl and run the result through Google Translate, but I'm looking for something automated.
Does anyone know of a tool (extension?) that will translate captions (even badly) for YouTube videos? Sure I could you use youtube-dl and run the result through Google Translate, but I'm looking for something automated.
It's pretty easy to rig a translation script using pretrained models. [1] If you are building a historical dataset, it's probably better to cache the transcript in its original language, so you can benefit from improvements to translation models as they develop.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yinote/fhpgggnmdlm...
Does anyone know of a tool (extension?) that will translate captions (even badly) for YouTube videos? Sure I could you use youtube-dl and run the result through Google Translate, but I'm looking for something automated.
This is natively supported on youtube, at least some of the time. I think it might be that you have to have youtube's UI language set to a different language than is spoken in the video.
My current working theory is that they couldn't figure out a way to fit a two-level menu on a phone screen, so they just cut that feature...