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Why are you not just using yt-dl to download the subtitles? Using yt-dl you can also fallback in case the subtitles don't exist and instead download the videos,
by sunbum 3y ago
Why are you not just using yt-dl to download the subtitles? Using yt-dl you can also fallback in case the subtitles don't exist and instead download the videos, convert them to mp3, and then run them through whisper[1] locally.
[1] - https://github.com/openai/whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper
- soco 3y agoWouldn't that mean actually more work than even watching the video? The point of such a helper tool is to spare time, not to have fun with toys. I mean nothing wrong with toys but hardly a help in this case.
- fl7305 3y agoI'm interested in 1-2h long videos of people talking about interesting stuff. But I don't have time to watch them all. It'd be great to have a tool to get accurate transcripts. The YouTube subtitles can be easily downloaded, but aren't readable on their own. They often lack even basic punctuation or sentence structure. It'd be even more great to get good condensed transcripts, or event targeted condensed transcripts of the things I'm interested in in that particular video.
- HenryBemis 3y agoDare I add that sometimes the subtitles are auto-generated and words shown are wrong.
- fl7305 3y agoThanks, that's also an issue there.
- infecto 3y agoI think you can get pretty accurate transcripts now with off the shelf tooling. Speaker diarization included.
- lordswork 3y agoThat's still way more work than is necessary, unless you absolutely need to summarize locally for some reason. You can just paste the URL to gemini.google.com with prompt "Summarize this video."
- CastFX 3y agoI just get "I don't have enough information to do that. I'm a large language model, able to communicate in response to a wide range of prompts and questions, but my knowledge about that specific video is limited. Is there anything else I can do to help?"
- lordswork 3y agoPost a link to the conversation or YouTube URL you are trying to summarize?
- djmips 3y agoLots of videos don't have subtitles for various reasons.