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by sneak 2244 days ago
https://s.sneak.berlin/@sneak/104054875133518950

I want a YT speed setting for “constant WPM” based on their autocaption timestamp metadata.
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three_seagrass 2244 days ago
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.

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aspenmayer 2244 days ago
That’s an amazingly obvious idea whose time has come. Who do we @ to get this on YouTube already?
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BrandonM 2244 days ago
Overcast does roughly that for podcasts and it works great.
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aspenmayer 2243 days ago
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.
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