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Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by arboles » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:00 PM UTC

gbertb wrote: post #5

Is this utilizing whisper to transcribe?

Youtube already auto-generates transcripts that you can see in the ... menu in most videos. This website just seems like an alternative frontend?

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:01 PM UTC

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Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by banana_giraffe » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:01 PM UTC

If you want an CLI version of a similar idea, you can use yt-dlp and some simple jq to pull down the captions for a file:

    curl `\
      yt-dlp -j "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWyp2vXxqA" | \
      jq -r '.automatic_captions.en[] | select(.ext=="json3") | .url'`

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by antman » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:03 PM UTC

unangst wrote: post #9

Expect an email from Google lawyers early this week about the domain name.

I think "transcriptsforyoutube" would be passable? I remember something about a case using "for" and being ok but not any details.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by darepublic » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:03 PM UTC

What I've wanted it search by transcript of past videos I've watched. With something like this it seems reasonable to imagine having a set up where every video you navigate to gets transcribed and test is indexed for later search

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by kube-system » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:04 PM UTC

seydor wrote: post #2

This is great and works well. What is the copyright status of transcripts?

They are owned by the copyright owner of the underlying audio.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by seydor » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:05 PM UTC

kube-system wrote: post #16

seydor wrote: post #2

This is great and works well. What is the copyright status of transcripts?

They are owned by the copyright owner of the underlying audio.

but for example, is it fair use to reproduce? what about indexing?

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by arboles » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:06 PM UTC

This UI and Youtube's UI for transcripts are really nice. When I'm looking for a particular piece of information I can just Ctrl+F and click on the match to play from there. Youtube used to auto-generate subtitles, now it also formats subtitles as transcripts. I wish offline media players had this functionality, if I get distracted for a few seconds I don't have to watch those seconds again, I can speedread over the past couple lines.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by kube-system » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:08 PM UTC

seydor wrote: post #17

kube-system wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are owned by the copyright owner of the underlying audio.

but for example, is it fair use to reproduce? what about indexing?

Depends on why it is being done.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by is0tope » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 6:09 PM UTC

Maybe this is a bit off topic, but does anyone know the legal footing of having a business with another businesses name in it? For instance, this tool uses the word "YouTube" in its name, though it is used as only a part of it, and it is not a competitor. I've always wondered how this works.