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youtube-dl --write-sub --skip-download
Doesn't work unless there are subtitles (WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles), which seems to be different from captions.
--write-auto-sub (thanks)
Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
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Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#52Wow, this is made for me. Youtube's own "view transcript" tool spits out a small side window with about 5 words per line. For me, that's a pain to read. This transcript is displayed in paragraph form, nearly as readable as a typical article. One very specific question: is there a way to get it on Instapaper's mobile app? While it transfers well on the web version, clicking on the transcript through the app takes me t…
Glad you like it! I am not sure why it wouldn't work on mobile Instapaper. I hope you find a workaround.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
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Okay so you look at domain-specific keywords. I’m interested in general terms that mark important parts. “The key here is...” “pay attention to...” “the most common mistake” etc
I look for what comes after "the key here is ...". Indication of where the key lies means nothing to me if the key is nowhere to be found in a video/article. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". Most content is useless mostly not because of malice, but simply because people who put content about what interests me mostly never have worked on actual real world projects. They'll write about experiment tracking and ML project mana…
Any keywords (general or specific) are just markers for you to review the content. If it’s a bad video/creator you’ll notice that and move on to another video.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#54Hey all! I am one of the creators of Hieroglyph. I know its not perfect, but it was a small project my friend and I wanted to make to solve our own problem. We wanted to be able to ctrl+f and find some information in videos. There is still so much to add. We created it to get some practice with web development and to test out some ideas. I did not expect it to land here to be honest. Please let me know if you have an…
Thank you for making it!
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
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For one, YouTube gives you time codes, which are good when translating, but just in the way when reading or editing (say to find a quote). Second, while a minor annoyance, the text is hard scroll and read, due to how constricted the reading area is. Hieroglyph gives you a huge blob, which isn't super-fantastic either, but IMHO it's slightly better than YouTube's "view transcript" functionality, if nothing else, than…
This is exactly it! We wanted to make it readable. I know its not great and its something I want to improve. I'm taking notes from all of the suggestions in this thread.
I gather making paragraphs that make any sense would require either a very advanced algorithm or an AI?
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
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This is exactly it! We wanted to make it readable. I know its not great and its something I want to improve. I'm taking notes from all of the suggestions in this thread.
I gather making paragraphs that make any sense would require either a very advanced algorithm or an AI?
Its tough. The easy solution I plan on implementing soon is just letting the user adjust where newlines are inserted, every 5 sentences or 6 sentences.
Other plan further out would be to see where the silences in the video are and insert newlines there.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#57I am just working on pretty much the same tool: subscanner.com
My goal is to get the content indexed on search engines to make youtube transcripts browsable.
I have decided not to use auto-generated subtitles as they are of poor quality and search engines do not like broken English. However since I am not done with the tool completely yet, I might reconsider this.
An example video on subscanner: https://subscanner.com/rjDX5ItsOnQ
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#58This is great! Do the transcripts come with timing information? Would love to be able to ctrl+f text and then jump to that part of the video.
You could consider extracting the YouTube audio and using an aligner algorithm with the transcript to get precise timing without paying anything
Do you have any recommendations for alignment software which is reasonably priced?
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
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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.
As far as I can tell, it's available on desktop, but neither in mobile browsers nor the app. The video language being the same or different from the UI language didn't seem to make a difference. 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...
I just tested, and yes on desktop there is an 'Auto-translate' option, even for videos with 'auto-generated captions'. However on mobile (YouTube app on Android, Firefox, Chrome) and my TV the 'Auto-translate' option is missing, so I can only view the generated subtitles in the original language. I mostly watch on mobile or TV, so :-/
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
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You could consider extracting the YouTube audio and using an aligner algorithm with the transcript to get precise timing without paying anything
Do you have any recommendations for alignment software which is reasonably priced?
I haven't check for a few years but there were free tools available with great quality (providing intra-word timing even)