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furkangok commented on Youtube2Webpage: Create Websites with Text from Videos github.com/obra/Youtube2W... · Posted by u/_Microft
It would be really neat if after pulling the captions, an LLM was used to reword the content into an idiomatic "blogpost" (since speech is typically different than writing). Using LLMs, we could even choose the level of summarization and the output tone!
As someone who strongly prefers reading to watching instructional videos, I'd pay for this service :)
can I self-promote here? we are not doing exactly the same but we are transcribing videos ourselves (no auto YT captions) If you want to read a high quality transcript & summarize videos, you can do that at https://alphy.app
We try to make online audiovisual information as open and accessible as text.
Currently we have public AI assistants for the following: - Human Behavioral Biology by Robert Sapolsky - Stanford
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- Philosophize This
- Veritasium
- Financial Markets by Shiller - YaleCourses
- Principles of Microeconomics - MIT Open Courseware
- Justice with Michael Sandel - Harvard University
- Crypto Startup School - a16z
- Y Combinator Podcast
- Maps of Meaning - Jordan Peterson
- Death with Shelly Kegan - YaleCourses
- We Study Billionaires
- The Lunar Society Podcast
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