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by raybb 1278 days ago
I love the idea of PeerTube and often browse videos on tilvids (a fairly curated instance).

However, lately I've been wishing for a tool where lectures could be hosted that has nice searchable transcripts, allows people have have comments and discussion based on the time. Something kinda like Loom but more oriented around making lectures annotateable by students for referring to later.

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Someone could write a server plugin that passes the video's audio through the latest Mozilla's STT language model to get the transcription with timestamps. The tools are already there, if you know how to make it happen you shouldn't wait for a single guy in France to reach feature parity with Google
Basically, what I'd like is an open source version of otter.ai. It's doable but I think the key is making something with a nice design :)