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by Shrezzing 1019 days ago
>since speech is typically different than writing

Is a scripted video significantly different to a written blogpost? It might be a symptom of the type of YT videos I watch, but most of them seem to be essay-style "intro/thesis/points 1, 2, 3/counterpoint/conclusion", and the only thing that hints at speech is the umming-and-arring of the presenter.

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It is to me...an example from a CNN transcript:

"Former chief-of-staff, Mark Meadows asking a federal judge to put his surrender on hold, while deciding whether to move his trial to federal court, and former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, seeking the same, making a pretty remarkable argument in his filing."

That's someone doing a sort of play-by-play explanation of what viewers are seeing in a video. Compare to a purposefully written story:

"A federal judge in Georgia rejected a request by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to postpone his surrender and arrest in Fulton County, Georgia, as an attempt to move the case to federal court is litigated, according to a court order issued Wednesday."

It seems like there could be some value in an LLM that would rewrite the first into something more like the second.