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

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.

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

Overcast does roughly that for podcasts and it works great.

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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