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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.
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| So I guess that means this service relies on YouTube provided
| subtitles.
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| Sad times that it didn't work.
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| 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.
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| 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 :)
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| [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.
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| [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!
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