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Post by BasilPH »

marcelfahle wrote: post #126
BasilPH wrote: post #111

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This is cool! We're doing forced alignment with audio recordings i.e. podcasts. Here's an example from a test client: https://www.withfanfare.com/p/seldon-crisis/search-by-the-fo... Grateful for any feedback you might have. Also, if you run a knowledge-dense podcast, or know somebody that does, I would love to talk to you/them. I'm for example considering to link places, people and things in a transcript.

Wow, this looks incredible! Love how the underline travels and guides the eye.. Very impressive! Excuse the question, but "forced alignment" is when you don't have timestamps, like in webvtt?

Thank you!

Yes, exactly. We do forced alignment when you edit your transcript. The new words don't have any timestamps, so we need to align them. For short sections we use interpolation. If we need align whole sections we use Gentle[^1].

[^1]: https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by anticensor »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #80
is0tope wrote: post #20

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use > is a legal doctrine that provides an affirmative defense to trademark infringement as enunciated by the United States Ninth Circuit, by which a person may use the trademark of another as a reference to describe the other product, or to compare it to their own.

Nominative use is explicitly ruled out in some other jurisdictions. Do not rely upon it.

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by jck »

cercatrova wrote: post #110
ptspts wrote: post #57

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Not all YouTube videos with spoken text have automatic captions.

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

I am not a fan of this pattern - if I'm understanding correctly, you would have to part with all of yt-dlp's niceties like playlist/channel handling, quality selection, file naming, logging config etc.

Why not just use the whisper cli on yt-dlp CLI's output for videos with bad or no subtitles?

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Post by kawfey »

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.

I've had luck with pasting the transcript into ChatGPT and asking it for a seven-bullet list of main talking points.

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

alpb wrote: post #34

Fwiw YouTube already has a feature for this. Click the "..." next to the share and click Show Transcript. There are also extensions like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-captions-s... that makes it easy to search them in a popup.

Thank you, Do you use it regularly? I run a problem validation forum and someone was asking exactly for that[1].

[1]: Searching YouTube videos with transcript - https://needgap.com/problems/88-searching-youtube-videos-wit....

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Post by cercatrova »

jck wrote: post #133
cercatrova wrote: post #110

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

I am not a fan of this pattern - if I'm understanding correctly, you would have to part with all of yt-dlp's niceties like playlist/channel handling, quality selection, file naming, logging config etc. Why not just use the whisper cli on yt-dlp CLI's output for videos with bad or no subtitles?

Sure you could do that too. yt-whisper uses yt-dlp underneath so there might be a way to pass arguments to the inner yt-dlp instance. Or if not you can modify the source directly, it seems to be a simple wrapper. Or again you can do what you were saying, using the Whisper CLI. All good options, I just mentioned this one since it's easier if I just want to download a video with subs.

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Post by thaumasiotes »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #128
thaumasiotes wrote: post #102

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> 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?

Yes. Trademark not copyright. My mistake. Otherwise: https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/ FFS Relax. It was an oversight on my part. It's minor at best in larger scheme of things. Maybe you're having a tough day? God bless you. But this is nothing to go to the mat over. You could have just said, "Oh. Maybe you're confusing trademark and copyright?". The last thing the world and HN needs is another high-s…

> Yes. Trademark not copyright. My mistake.

That is your most minor mistake. The much larger one is that you are claiming that the law supports the trademark policy you link to. It doesn't. Everyone remains free to use a trademark belonging to wordpress in order to refer to wordpress.

You are not free to use any such mark - the WordPress Foundation would be on very solid ground in telling you to stop using their graphical logo. But they can't stop you from using "WordPress" in the name of your for-profit company, which you'll note is quite explicitly contrary to their stated policy.

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Post by marcelfahle »

BasilPH wrote: post #131
marcelfahle wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, this looks incredible! Love how the underline travels and guides the eye.. Very impressive! Excuse the question, but "forced alignment" is when you don't have timestamps, like in webvtt?

Thank you! Yes, exactly. We do forced alignment when you edit your transcript. The new words don't have any timestamps, so we need to align them. For short sections we use interpolation. If we need align whole sections we use Gentle[^1]. [^1]: https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle

Thank you, this is really interesting! :)

Re: YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

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Post by chillel »

bilater wrote: post #92

Nice! Did something similar a couple of years ago: https://you-tldr.com/ Summary remains the elusive hard part...both to do and to serve at scale. But we get closer by the day.

Nice work. I actually found your site thru Google by trying to find this HN post again. Out of curiosity, do you get a lot of paid subscribers? What do revenue figures look like for a project like this?
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