Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
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Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#2This is great! Do the transcripts come with timing information? Would love to be able to ctrl+f text and then jump to that part of the video.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#3This is great! Do the transcripts come with timing information? Would love to be able to ctrl+f text and then jump to that part of the video.
I'd love that too! It doesn't right now, I just import it into Otter.ai if I decide that video has something I want to quote and link to or excerpt from.
Nonetheless, it's still a great tool to help me preview or "skim" through a video.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#4This is really interesting, this may be useful for long videos im unsure if I want to watch. I can probably "read a video" in 1/4th the time to watch it.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#5This is great! Do the transcripts come with timing information? Would love to be able to ctrl+f text and then jump to that part of the video.
Cool idea, I just tried it and it doesn't look like it would work for that though.
It spits out a wall of text, without any special formatting or speaker metadata, though it does seem to make an exception for distinguishing music sections.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#6This is really nice. The transcripts are better than I expected, from the few videos I tested with. I usually try to avoid videos for information, so this maybe my new way to avoid them while still getting the info from it.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#7I was wanting exactly this a just a few days ago. I wish it were a YouTube or youtube-dl feature.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#8I don't get it. What's the advantage of this compared to the "view transcript" functionality on the video page itself? It might be confined to a small window, but at least it has timestamps and isn't one long wall of text.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#9This is great! Do the transcripts come with timing information? Would love to be able to ctrl+f text and then jump to that part of the video.
It could get costly because their transcription pricing is geared towards video editing, but you can scrape the video and load it into Descript and have this power.
Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
#10I was wanting exactly this a just a few days ago. I wish it were a YouTube or youtube-dl feature.
youtube-dl can download the auto-transcription as a subtitle file with --write-auto-sub, and there are various tools that can turn that into plain text.