Very neat project - been clicking through it for a while, a bit slow but manageable - hope it holds the weight of the HN front page.
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
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Re: Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
#22Nice to see this here. I’m the developer who made this. The idea for this started when I was chatting with co-creator, Dave Charney and we asked, “I wonder if all the questions kids could ask of astronauts have already been asked.” If you select “About this project”, there are technical details on how we did it.
Thanks for making this..I was trying to accurately find timestamps in a video from a transcript sometime back, was not aware that this is called "phoneme alignment" and whisperx already solves this !
Re: Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
#23Nice to see this here. I’m the developer who made this. The idea for this started when I was chatting with co-creator, Dave Charney and we asked, “I wonder if all the questions kids could ask of astronauts have already been asked.” If you select “About this project”, there are technical details on how we did it.
This is fun. The question -> video flow could be so useful for many other things.
YouTube PM if you are seeing, this is your "AI project".
Instead of just filtering user asked questions. We could probably just use an LLM to find interesting sections in video which has answer to a particular question.
Re: Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
#24Nice to see this here. I’m the developer who made this. The idea for this started when I was chatting with co-creator, Dave Charney and we asked, “I wonder if all the questions kids could ask of astronauts have already been asked.” If you select “About this project”, there are technical details on how we did it.
One thing occurs to me about the debate between apps and web-apps. This site is really cool, but it also seems likely to be one of the endless semi-hobby sites that you check it out again after a few years and it's 404. The one thing nice about 'offline' apps is that they're always there. It'd be amazing to have a downloadable version of this. It seems it should be doable, excepting bandwidth costs if it takes off!
Re: Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
#25Very neat project. Just in English though? Any plans for questions in other languages?
Possibly. The translation aspect makes the timing a bit more complex to work out. When I was building this out, I considered English only to be version one.
Re: Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
#26This is wonderful, thank you. A suggestion, if it's possible: Identify the astronauts speaking. (I'm not sure that can be automated reliably unless it's already in video metadata.) Also, the transcript isn't keeping up and skips parts. But those are minor issues. Thank you so much!
I would love to, but the video metadata is entirely lacking. All I have is a filename and an uploaded date—not even an accurate date of when it was recorded.
Re: Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
#27Nice to see this here. I’m the developer who made this. The idea for this started when I was chatting with co-creator, Dave Charney and we asked, “I wonder if all the questions kids could ask of astronauts have already been asked.” If you select “About this project”, there are technical details on how we did it.
One thing occurs to me about the debate between apps and web-apps. This site is really cool, but it also seems likely to be one of the endless semi-hobby sites that you check it out again after a few years and it's 404. The one thing nice about 'offline' apps is that they're always there. It'd be amazing to have a downloadable version of this. It seems it should be doable, excepting bandwidth costs if it takes off!
Unfortunately it’s almost a TB of video. The project is opensource so you could run the pipeline to grab all the videos yourself. https://github.com/bfeist/ask-an-astronaut
Re: Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
#28This is wonderful, thank you. A suggestion, if it's possible: Identify the astronauts speaking. (I'm not sure that can be automated reliably unless it's already in video metadata.) Also, the transcript isn't keeping up and skips parts. But those are minor issues. Thank you so much!
I would love to, but the video metadata is entirely lacking. All I have is a filename and an uploaded date—not even an accurate date of when it was recorded.
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Re: Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is fun. The question -> video flow could be so useful for many other things.
YouTube PM if you are seeing, this is your "AI project". Instead of just filtering user asked questions. We could probably just use an LLM to find interesting sections in video which has answer to a particular question.
What is PM?
I am hoping it is someone elses AI project lol.
Re: Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube PM if you are seeing, this is your "AI project". Instead of just filtering user asked questions. We could probably just use an LLM to find interesting sections in video which has answer to a particular question.
What is PM? I am hoping it is someone elses AI project lol.
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