You-tldr
Productivity
video transcripts
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
13 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 12 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 6 for, 4 againstExecution: 2 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Transcript quality looks good and the interface is sleek
From 2 comments
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…
sixhobbits on HNI built something related called https://sidenote.me to take notes on YouTube videos, so I understand what you're trying to solve. Congrats on your launch, your interface looks…
emgo on HN
Objections
Only shows YouTube's own captions, which YouTube's transcript feature already provides
From 4 comments
How is this different to "Open Transcript" on YouTube?
throw14082020 on HNWhat's the difference between this app and the built-in interactive transcript feature that youtube already has for videos with captions?
krispyKrispr on HN> This is useful. Have you tried it? I have the same problem as you, and this app seems to just show transcripts, which is already available on the YouTube website. This app…
throw14082020 on HNI 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…
codetrotter on HN
Summary feature returned no summary
From 2 comments
Not so impressed, to be honest. 1) I was curious how their ASR software was going to be able to be fast enough for a longer video, and how the WER would be. To make it easy on…
kleiba on HNI have too many videos to watch, and this tool sounded like it could help. But it just shows the transcript, so this is not the TLDR. Maybe its meant to be smarter, but it said…
throw14082020 on HN
Videos fail to load or show errors
From 2 comments
Unfortunately for me, I tried with 4 videos and all got: > The video is no longer available. If this is an unexpected error, please try again in a bit.
blisseyGo on HNWorks impressive! Nice work building it.
gregdoesit on HN
Requests
Turn transcripts into sectioned blog-style text with filler words removed
From 2 comments
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…
michaelbuckbee on HN+1000 I've been trying to do this (split into sections and eliminate umms) with recordings of live classes... it takes me 4 hours per each hour of recording. if you can make this…
elviejo on HN
Speech-to-text for videos without subtitles
From 1 comment
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 ;)
bilater on HN
Questions
How is this different from YouTube's built-in transcript feature
From 2 comments
How is this different to "Open Transcript" on YouTube?
throw14082020 on HNWhat's the difference between this app and the built-in interactive transcript feature that youtube already has for videos with captions?
krispyKrispr on HN
Alternatives named
YouTube's Open Transcript feature
From 1 comment
How is this different to "Open Transcript" on YouTube?
throw14082020 on HN
youtube-dl with a script to extract captions
From 1 comment
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…
generalizations on HN
Glancer, a similar tool for skimming presentations
From 1 comment
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…
RBerenguel on HN