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Ask HN: Is there a good tool to turn YouTube videos into quizzes or Anki cards?

by tikkun on 10/23/24, 12:47 PM with 3 comments

I have a set of youtube videos I've watched.

I'd love an automated way to turn them into Anki cards.

One note is that most of the videos are interviews, so the tool would need to be able to use speaker diarization.

My manual alternative is to make a google doc with Q&A and just quiz myself manually.

But it'd be great if there was a tool where I could put in the links, and then just get multiple choice quizzes that would keep testing me on the material.

  • by tikkun on 10/23/24, 12:55 PM

    I've now tried plato AI (and subscribed to premium) but it made too many errors (likely confused by the interview format, it thinks things that the interviewer asked are the right answers, but they're not).

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39148336

  • by tikkun on 10/23/24, 12:48 PM

    I tried quizgecko, quizizz ai, and magic school, none seemed to work well for this. (Could be a nice side project idea if someone is looking for one! But I'm hoping there's one someone has already made)

  • by Rzor on 10/23/24, 1:23 PM

    I think part of the effectiveness of Anki cards comes from making them yourself.