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Show HN: Transcribe YouTube Videos

by llimllib on 9/7/24, 11:55 AM with 11 comments

I often want to read the contents of YouTube videos but I don’t want to watch them, and YouTube’s captioning leaves a lot to be desired.

So I wrote a shell script that takes a URL, downloads the video, transcribes it with whisper, and turns it into a clean HTML page for reading.

https://github.com/llimllib/yt-transcribe

by Leftium on 9/8/24, 12:11 AM
Perhaps skip the whisper step if the video already has decent manual (not auto-generated) captions, like this video: https://youtu.be/i-BkN3rTK0Q
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Another use case is being able to quickly jump to a specific spot inside a video. Could you add timestamps with links that jump directly to that point in the video?
I accomplished something similar by modifying oTranscribe:
- https://otranscribe.netlify.app/?vsl=definedefine
- https://otranscribe.netlify.app/?vsl=letter
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Finally, I'm a windows user so a whisper.cpp version would be nice~