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Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by CamperBob2 »

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…

Sad thing is, the next generation of AI models is probably being trained on that type of content.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by thaumasiotes »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #88
thaumasiotes wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not sure about YouTube but WordPress does not allow the use of the name. They may not like it, but they don't have the power to disallow you from using their name to refer to them. That's allowed.

Actually, they do. It's copyright. Plenty of legal precedent. They defend WordPress, but are willing to allow WP. The law is on their side.

> Actually, they do.

No, they don't.

> It's copyright.

No, it isn't. It's trademark. There is no such concept as copyright in a single word.

> The law is on their side.

Again, no, it isn't.

What was the point of your comment? Why talk if you're not worried about whether what you're saying is true or false?

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by tkgally »

gbertb wrote: post #5

Is this utilizing whisper to transcribe?

Apparently not. I compared the result of the linked site to a Whisper transcription of the same video. While the word-by-word accuracy of the two transcriptions was about the same, the Whisper transcription was punctuated nearly perfectly and therefore much easier to read.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by specialist »

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.

Nice. Worth trying.

Or maybe just repeat the same content a few times.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by specialist »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #100
alamortsubite wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you know if YouTube measures wall time or percent of video watched? If percent, then a hack might be slow-mo the content and encourage audience ti watch at 2x speed.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by j45 »

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…

It sucks because time on page plus how much you scroll and once you find your answer you don’t click on any more results signals to Google that you were satisfied.

I’m just not convinced the preambles are needed.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by j45 »

RBerenguel wrote: post #36
janandonly wrote: post #7

The burning hate I feel for all information to be locked away in a YouTube video. This will solve that real world problem. I love reading (or, skimming) through a long read.

I had a huge backlog of tech videos, so I wrote me this (also to play a bit with Haskell, the base idea can be replicated easily in any language though): https://github.com/rberenguel/glancer

This is great. Sharing like this is what I love about hn. Do you have any other features planned?

I’m considering a master keyword list to index against any text that comes in.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by cercatrova »

banana_giraffe wrote: post #13

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'`

Or even better, yt-whisper, which uses OpenAI's Whisper speech to text. I guess it'd be better to first check whether the video has captions first before Whispering, so maybe both your command and this one could be used together.

https://github.com/m1guelpf/yt-whisper

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by cercatrova »

ptspts wrote: post #57
banana_giraffe wrote: post #13

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'`

Not all YouTube videos with spoken text have automatic captions.

https://github.com/m1guelpf/yt-whisper
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