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Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

gruez wrote: post #8

I 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.

There are users who are using YouTube transcript to search and reach the particular section of the video using that timestamps since there's no real video search[1], it seems there's no easy way to do that too. When I read the title, I thought it address that above problem, but it downloads and renders the transcript.

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

Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

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Post by Jugurtha »

fudged71 wrote: post #38
Jugurtha wrote: post #31

I use "YouTube Captions Search" Chrome extension. This allows the following workflow: - I am on a YouTube video view - I click on "Closed Captions" (CC) in the YouTube player. - The extension icon in Chrome's toolbar becomes red. - I click on the extension icon - A search text field appears - I type a word or a sentence - There is an area with timestamps and sentences containing the words I search This is useful in t…

I’ve been interested in making a list of keywords and key phrases that can highlight the ‘meat’ of instructional YouTube videos. Which words/phrases have been useful for you to search?

I work at a company and we do consulting for enterprise. We make machine learning products. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to deliver value to customers (domain + making product).

We also build https://iko.ai, a machine learning platform to simplify our work. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to make that product.

Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

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Post by sali0 »

Hey all! I am one of the creators of Hieroglyph. I know its not perfect, but it was a small project my friend and I wanted to make to solve our own problem. We wanted to be able to ctrl+f and find some information in videos. There is still so much to add. We created it to get some practice with web development and to test out some ideas. I did not expect it to land here to be honest. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

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Post by sali0 »

kebman wrote: post #33
gruez wrote: post #8

I 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.

For one, YouTube gives you time codes, which are good when translating, but just in the way when reading or editing (say to find a quote). Second, while a minor annoyance, the text is hard scroll and read, due to how constricted the reading area is. Hieroglyph gives you a huge blob, which isn't super-fantastic either, but IMHO it's slightly better than YouTube's "view transcript" functionality, if nothing else, than…

This is exactly it! We wanted to make it readable. I know its not great and its something I want to improve. I'm taking notes from all of the suggestions in this thread.

Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

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Post by sali0 »

comex wrote: post #10
nonbirithm wrote: post #7

I 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.

I did not know this. Thanks for the tip!

Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

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Post by sali0 »

gruez wrote: post #8

I 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.

We are punctuating the transcripts, trying to make it readable. But yes, it isn't too much different.

I want to add timestamps to the video. I got some ideas from this thread.

Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

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Post by fudged71 »

Jugurtha wrote: post #42
fudged71 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been interested in making a list of keywords and key phrases that can highlight the ‘meat’ of instructional YouTube videos. Which words/phrases have been useful for you to search?

I work at a company and we do consulting for enterprise. We make machine learning products. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to deliver value to customers (domain + making product). We also build https://iko.ai , a machine learning platform to simplify our work. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to make that product.

Okay so you look at domain-specific keywords.

I’m interested in general terms that mark important parts. “The key here is...” “pay attention to...” “the most common mistake” etc

Re: Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript

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Post by Jugurtha »

fudged71 wrote: post #49
Jugurtha wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work at a company and we do consulting for enterprise. We make machine learning products. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to deliver value to customers (domain + making product). We also build https://iko.ai , a machine learning platform to simplify our work. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to make that product.

Okay so you look at domain-specific keywords. I’m interested in general terms that mark important parts. “The key here is...” “pay attention to...” “the most common mistake” etc

I look for what comes after "the key here is ...". Indication of where the key lies means nothing to me if the key is nowhere to be found in a video/article. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe".

Most content is useless mostly not because of malice, but simply because people who put content about what interests me mostly never have worked on actual real world projects. They'll write about experiment tracking and ML project management and will just snatch the marketing brochure of whatever library pushed out by some company at a summit, never having used that library for actual work, heck never having run the getting started, to notice the cracks. They'd have relevant content if they had. Oh, well. Nobody "got time" for that, need to churn out a Medium post/YouTube video.

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