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scan.video

32 points·fouadallaoui··6 comments

Cool. Are you looking at the captions/subtitles and in many cases the automatically generated ones from youtube's speech recognition?

A similar service was http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=holy submitted few days back : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359710

Thanks for the feedback. We use captions for our prototype in order to extract all the data which is just one way to do it. They are many ways to extract content from videos and we're working on some interesting ones!

About youpronounce.it (watch out for trademark complaints), they focus on a single use case? pronunciation? Which is fine.

We just built a quick prototype for validation. We're working on scan.video to make video content more accessible for people on the Internet. What you see today is %0.1 of what we'd like to build. So, stay tuned! definitely..

(We added a link for 1st time users to make things easier)

Thanks again for all the feedback!

Feel free to leave your feedback! Thanks.

Took me a minute to get that the first one was a keyword, and the second one actually got me an audio clip of someone saying something.

If the problem you are trying to solve is easing someone finding someone saying a word, then I fell it might be easier for the user to just have someone use the "second box" (transcript search) to do all of the searching, and then narrow based on either suggested keywords or some other offering.

Also I noticed a fairly minimal amount of videos when doing pretty big searches (car), any reason to limit it to 5ish videos?

It would also be interesting if you could chain together sentences somehow.

I like it!

You should do a regular youtube search concurrently and remove its results from yours.

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