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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

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.

xuhu 4y ago
Just checked that google also includes youtube captions in search returns.
motoboi 4y ago
Not sure if you know that, but YouTube has a transcript feature available for years now. It's somewhat hidden in the interface, but let's you search with ctrl-F (or command-F) in the transcript
- zbrozek 4y ago
  I use this for city council meetings to figure out who said what. It's not easy, but it's better than nothing. YouTube doesn't appear to do so well with multiple speakers.
  - loughnane 4y ago
    I’ve tried to do this recently. Any suggestions on tools or workflows to dissect into different speakers?
- cratermoon 4y ago
  Yeah this website just extract the transcript that exists and displays it alongside the video. It's nice, but it's not doing the transcribing itself.
alpb 4y ago
> I feel for all information to be locked away in a YouTube video. Google Search actually indexes transcripts of a video and shows you some YouTube results based on that even though the title/description of the video doesn't match the search query.
RBerenguel 4y ago
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 https://github.com/rberenguel/glancer
- arboles 4y ago
  Heh, this basically makes a storyboard
- j45 4y ago
  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.
  - RBerenguel 4y ago
    The only thing I have in my "someday" list of tasks for Glancer is the possibility of adding/using the whisper binary to get captions when/if unavailable. Aside from that I just keep it more or less working by using it myself (and to be fair on this one, I wish I wrote it in another language, Haskell can be a bit finicky to build if you do it sparingly). Any addition that is on the "view" layer (the generated HTML) is very easy to add, just needs to go into the template file, at some point I might tweak that area but currently have no outstanding idea/requirement. The rest (i.e. the bulk of the code) is just a very bare-bones parser for captions that should be pretty stable and need no additions (crossing fingers here).
    - j45 4y ago
      Whisper is neat. openai probably open sourced it for a reason and it’s probably because they have something much quicker lol. I’ve seen vosk used on device and it’s decently quick too on a recent Apple chip.
Random_Person 4y ago
I've published almost 1,800 video diaries and this is a game changer for me. I've been wanting to do more with the back catalog, but don't have transcripts.
thomassmith65 4y ago
The ratio of information to misinformation on Youtube seems pretty bad. To make transcripts easier to access might create more problems than it solves. Granted I can't make a bullet-proof argument; there's no clear way to quantify that ratio.

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.

xuhu 4y ago

Just checked that google also includes youtube captions in search returns.

motoboi 4y ago

Not sure if you know that, but YouTube has a transcript feature available for years now. It's somewhat hidden in the interface, but let's you search with ctrl-F (or command-F) in the transcript

zbrozek 4y ago
I use this for city council meetings to figure out who said what. It's not easy, but it's better than nothing. YouTube doesn't appear to do so well with multiple speakers.
- loughnane 4y ago
  I’ve tried to do this recently. Any suggestions on tools or workflows to dissect into different speakers?
cratermoon 4y ago
Yeah this website just extract the transcript that exists and displays it alongside the video. It's nice, but it's not doing the transcribing itself.

alpb 4y ago

> I feel for all information to be locked away in a YouTube video. Google Search actually indexes transcripts of a video and shows you some YouTube results based on that even though the title/description of the video doesn't match the search query.

RBerenguel 4y ago

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 https://github.com/rberenguel/glancer

arboles 4y ago
Heh, this basically makes a storyboard
j45 4y ago
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.
- RBerenguel 4y ago
  The only thing I have in my "someday" list of tasks for Glancer is the possibility of adding/using the whisper binary to get captions when/if unavailable. Aside from that I just keep it more or less working by using it myself (and to be fair on this one, I wish I wrote it in another language, Haskell can be a bit finicky to build if you do it sparingly). Any addition that is on the "view" layer (the generated HTML) is very easy to add, just needs to go into the template file, at some point I might tweak that area but currently have no outstanding idea/requirement. The rest (i.e. the bulk of the code) is just a very bare-bones parser for captions that should be pretty stable and need no additions (crossing fingers here).
  - j45 4y ago
    Whisper is neat. openai probably open sourced it for a reason and it’s probably because they have something much quicker lol. I’ve seen vosk used on device and it’s decently quick too on a recent Apple chip.

Random_Person 4y ago

I've published almost 1,800 video diaries and this is a game changer for me. I've been wanting to do more with the back catalog, but don't have transcripts.

thomassmith65 4y ago

The ratio of information to misinformation on Youtube seems pretty bad. To make transcripts easier to access might create more problems than it solves. Granted I can't make a bullet-proof argument; there's no clear way to quantify that ratio.