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I could've sworn I had seen a Google/YouTube announcement somewhere that there was going to be readable/searchable transcripts coming. Is it what's already been rolled out? The current YouTube transcripts seem almost useless to me; limited to a small part of the screen real estate, and seem only searchable using the full page search built into web browsers.

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In the description of videos I see a "Show Transcript" button. I believe this is automatically generated. It's not grouped into sentences though, so there is room for improvement.

These are the automatic transcripts generated by YouTube mentioned by other commenters. Their accuracy leaves something to be desired compared to Whisper based transcripts.

Right, but it opens up a small page element that isn't very aesthetically pleasing to read from, and feels fairly useless.

That’s true. But I coincidentally also made another mini project a few months ago for making those built-in transcripts much nicer to read from. You may find it useful:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/youtube_transcript_clea...

Now that I think about it, this would work equally well for the transcripts generated by my new tool. I should just include that html file in my new repo as an added feature.

I also wrote a web app but it adds missing punctuations and chapters to further enhance readability. The AI models run locally in your browser, no ChatGPT used at all.

An iOS app is also coming soon so you’ll be able to listen and read while offline

https://www.appblit.com/scribe

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