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Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by varenc »

cavisne wrote: post #45

This script for whisper.cpp works really well https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/master/example... for my purposes I changed the output from subtitles to txt (so I could pipe the result into chatgpt)

That's doing speech recognition on the YouTube video's audio and then embedding the result as subtitles? Is the idea that this is superior to YouTube's own automatic subtitles? Though if the youtube video actually has manually crafted subtitles from the creator, as a lot of popular science content does, it seems a shame not to just use those subtitles directly and avoiding doing speech recognition. Or just rely on YouTube's automatic captions which are pretty decent in my experience.

See my comment on how to just download the subtitles YouTube provides with `yt-dlp` here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040342

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Post by blauditore »

neilv wrote: post #38

Hook this up to a language model, and maybe a user could instantly get the one sentence worth of information that the YouTube video creator buries in 10 minutes of monetized noise. And also save yourself time when the creator teases that they provide the info, but it turns out they don't, they're just trying to get views.

Sadly enough, I have the same issue with written content: BS websites add a ton of fluff to their texts as their deplorable approach to SEO and making some space for ads.

"Streaming your phone screen to a TV is something many people at some point want to do. But seeing the picture of your smartphone on a television or other device can be a daunting task. Here we list multiple ways how you can achieve the goal of sharing a mobile screen of an Android or an iOS device on a different device. It works for any manufacturer, like Samsung Smart TVs or Apple TV."

(goes on for another 15 paragrpahs before presenting a non-solution)

It's hard to put in words the amount of hate I feel for the authors of such pages. I'm desperately looking forward to the day Google comes up with better models for detecting useful content and those trash piles can burn in hell.

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Post by causality0 »

nostromo wrote: post #70
neilv wrote: post #38

Hook this up to a language model, and maybe a user could instantly get the one sentence worth of information that the YouTube video creator buries in 10 minutes of monetized noise. And also save yourself time when the creator teases that they provide the info, but it turns out they don't, they're just trying to get views.

YouTube created that problem by incentivizing longer videos. And now we have videos with tons of fluff. Similarly Google incentivizes longer webpages, so now we have recipes that start with a novella about grandma’s cooking before showing the actual recipe. It used to be nice to see a video’s thumbs up to thumbs down ratio to know if you’ve been click baited or not before watching the whole video. But that signal has…

I blame it on automated advertising. When you had to work to get someone to pay you you made good content. Now anyone can get paid as long as they're digestible. It's created the interesting situation where the average quality of demonetized content is far high than monetized content.

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Post by vouaobrasil »

nostromo wrote: post #70
neilv wrote: post #38

Hook this up to a language model, and maybe a user could instantly get the one sentence worth of information that the YouTube video creator buries in 10 minutes of monetized noise. And also save yourself time when the creator teases that they provide the info, but it turns out they don't, they're just trying to get views.

YouTube created that problem by incentivizing longer videos. And now we have videos with tons of fluff. Similarly Google incentivizes longer webpages, so now we have recipes that start with a novella about grandma’s cooking before showing the actual recipe. It used to be nice to see a video’s thumbs up to thumbs down ratio to know if you’ve been click baited or not before watching the whole video. But that signal has…

That is definitely true. I actually try and make my videos as short as possible but I noticed that over time the longer ones are definitely prioritized by the algorithm, yet I get lots of comments saying how people appreciate my very short videos.

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Post by thombat »

blauditore wrote: post #93
neilv wrote: post #38

Hook this up to a language model, and maybe a user could instantly get the one sentence worth of information that the YouTube video creator buries in 10 minutes of monetized noise. And also save yourself time when the creator teases that they provide the info, but it turns out they don't, they're just trying to get views.

Sadly enough, I have the same issue with written content: BS websites add a ton of fluff to their texts as their deplorable approach to SEO and making some space for ads. "Streaming your phone screen to a TV is something many people at some point want to do. But seeing the picture of your smartphone on a television or other device can be a daunting task. Here we list multiple ways how you can achieve the goal of shar…

Or Google has sorted the results by how many advert placement sites you'll have been exposed to on that page before it's predicted you'll stop reading, so having the paydirt right at the end looks great, and it doesn't matter if it's fool's gold.

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Post by alamortsubite »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #95
nostromo wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube created that problem by incentivizing longer videos. And now we have videos with tons of fluff. Similarly Google incentivizes longer webpages, so now we have recipes that start with a novella about grandma’s cooking before showing the actual recipe. It used to be nice to see a video’s thumbs up to thumbs down ratio to know if you’ve been click baited or not before watching the whole video. But that signal has…

That is definitely true. I actually try and make my videos as short as possible but I noticed that over time the longer ones are definitely prioritized by the algorithm, yet I get lots of comments saying how people appreciate my very short videos.

As a hack, I wonder if tacking 10 minutes of ambient video onto the end (after a "And now, 10 minutes of ambient video" warning) would help.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by piyh »

Topgamer7 wrote: post #89
neilv wrote: post #38

Hook this up to a language model, and maybe a user could instantly get the one sentence worth of information that the YouTube video creator buries in 10 minutes of monetized noise. And also save yourself time when the creator teases that they provide the info, but it turns out they don't, they're just trying to get views.

YouTube-dl had the ability to rip just subtitles. I once used this to grep for some information I wanted after downloading all of the transcripts.

I built an entire website based on that, there's a few other ones out there too.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by vouaobrasil »

alamortsubite wrote: post #97
vouaobrasil wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is definitely true. I actually try and make my videos as short as possible but I noticed that over time the longer ones are definitely prioritized by the algorithm, yet I get lots of comments saying how people appreciate my very short videos.

As a hack, I wonder if tacking 10 minutes of ambient video onto the end (after a "And now, 10 minutes of ambient video" warning) would help.

I am not so sure because YouTube keeps track of watch time. If no one watches past 2 minutes, then I think that would also be penalized, though I have no insight into the algorithm so I am not sure.
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