[HN Gopher] Show HN: You-tldr - easy-to-read transcripts of Yout... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: You-tldr - easy-to-read transcripts of Youtube videos Author : bilater Score : 46 points Date : 2021-02-06 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (you-tldr.com) (TXT) w3m dump (you-tldr.com) | codetrotter wrote: | I tried to transcribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLzxrzFCyOs | but subtitles are disabled for it. | | So I guess that means this service relies on YouTube provided | subtitles. | | Sad times that it didn't work. | | It would have been so great to link someone to a transcript of | that particular video ;) | bilater wrote: | Haha good one! Yes we do rely on youtube's subtitles. But are | considering adding our own speech to text feature for the | videos that don't have subtitles if there is demand ;) | sixhobbits wrote: | Wow the transcription looks better than the automated one rev.com | provided for a video where the speaker had a bit of an accent. | Very cool - what transcription software is it using? | bilater wrote: | Youtube! | jgrossholtz wrote: | Nice tool. I tried on mobile. I was able to get a transcript but | I ended up in the subscription page by mistake 3 times so I had | to try again each time. | | It seems to me that the free version does not allow me to do | enough to make me used to your tool and to end up subscribing to | the pro version. | bilater wrote: | You can sign up and try for 7 days for free and get all the pro | features! :) | mkl wrote: | Shouldn't it be "You-tldw"? The point is to read, rather than | spend the time watching. | codetrotter wrote: | The pro version additionally will summarize the transcript also | according to the feature page. So in case even the transcript | itself needs a tldr this has you covered. Besides I would guess | that tldr is a more well known acronym than tldw. | generalizations wrote: | I did something similar for myself a while back, to put the | transcript in a text file. It's a five line bash script that uses | youtube-dl to get the closed captions and cleans up the | formatting. #!/bin/bash link="$1" | fn="captions" youtube-dl --output $fn.%(ext)s --write-auto- | sub --skip-download $link sed '/-->/d' $fn.en.vtt | sed | '/<c>/d' | sed '/^[[:space:]]\*$/d' | uniq > $fn.txt | godmode2019 wrote: | I built a similar thing but I used a NN to add punctuation to the | output subtitles. | michaelbuckbee wrote: | If you're looking to make money / provide more value with this | service I think the angle you should try for is Video to Blog | Post. | | The transcript is fine but I'm not quite sure what problem this | solves. Whereas if you were able to take the transcript and spit | out a file that was broken into sections (based on YT chapters) | and with an attempt to automatically clean up the grammar and | remove the "um" style fill words of the spoken version I think | this would hit in a very different way. | tracyhenry wrote: | Second this. One thing I find useful in quarantine is to | extract a cook recipe from video transcripts. What I do now is | opening the youtube transcripts (sometimes unavailable), | pasting it into Notion and then hand-typing the sections. | pcthrowaway wrote: | This name makes no sense. If you're reading the transcript for a | Youtube video instead of, y'know, _watching_ the video, then you | can 't call the transcript a TLDR. At best, it's a TLDW, though | it has accessibility applications for people who also intend to | watch the video. | solumos wrote: | I built a very similar thing w/ topica.io (now defunct - I could | spin it back up if there's interest), but focused on sentence- | level and word-level timings to create a sleek interactive | transcript[0], and transcribed the videos via third party in the | background. My email's in my bio if you want to connect :) | | [0] https://www.3playmedia.com/resources/recorded- | webinars/wbnr-... | antman wrote: | Nice, it's working on mobile Android. The transcript letters | could be a bit smaller and the side margins also. An option to | keep the video as sticky while scrolling the transcript could | also be useful. | bilater wrote: | Thanks for the feedback! | butz wrote: | Clicking on one of Pro functions displays classic alert() dialog | and loads "Upgrade" page, losing the loaded video and transcript. | You might want to use a custom modal with link to "Upgrade" page | which switches only if user clicks on it, and maybe even opens in | new tab/page, to keep state. | bilater wrote: | Gotcha - yes I've been meaning to change that since the | behavior right now is annoying for the user. | RBerenguel wrote: | I did a similar (in spirit, to save time) thing [1] to be able to | skim on technical presentations: it creates a static HTML page | with regular shots from the video with the corresponding Youtube | CC on the side. It can help decide if a presentation is worth a | watch (or just get the gist of one). Uses youtube-dl and ffmpeg | under the hood. | | [1]: https://github.com/rberenguel/glancer | gregdoesit wrote: | Works impressive! Nice work building it. | bilater wrote: | Hey - sorry about that! Can you try again? Sometimes there are | errors that good old refreshing fixes! | [deleted] | gregdoesit wrote: | It started working. Very neat! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-06 23:00 UTC)