[randylahey]

A YouTuber (carykh) made a video where he explains an algorithm he made to automatically process lecture videos by speeding up, condensing and removing parts of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ8orIurGxw

[sneak]

https://s.sneak.berlin/@sneak/104054875133518950

I want a YT speed setting for “constant WPM” based on their autocaption timestamp metadata.

[three_seagrass]

Don't let your dreams be dreams. YouTube data API allows downloading captions, and the iframe API allows setting playback speed.

You could build a site that inputs YouTube video URLs + WPM and then outputs the video playing at the desired WPM.

[aspenmayer]

That’s an amazingly obvious idea whose time has come. Who do we @ to get this on YouTube already?

[BrandonM]

Overcast does roughly that for podcasts and it works great.

[aspenmayer]

Is there a similar feature in Google Podcasts? I know that they are transcribing them automatically in the same way captions are generated for YouTube videos. I think it mostly blew over but I remember Google caught some flak for that in the same way they did for Google Books v Authors Guild fiasco. This is why we can’t have nice things.

[AlexAffe]

oh. my. god. This is about to change... a lot of things. Stop motion by clapping totally has me.

[MiguelHudnandez]

I was surprised to find carykh's video is over a year old now! This has so many applications, I'm surprised it's not already common.