SupPandaHugger OP t1_j1pir6i wrote on December 26, 2022 at 10:04 AM

Interesting, google owns youtube, so they can extract subtitles using machine learning.

blueSGL t1_j1qa5gh wrote on December 26, 2022 at 3:23 PM

any youtube video with subs, (manual or autogenerated) that is all calculated at upload time, not whilst the video is playing back in your browser.

there are websites you can use to download this srt file.

e.g. this is the video linked above.

srt is just a text file with a different extension so can be scraped without needing to decode.

Yea, doing it in your browser every single time would be extremely inefficient.

That's useful. You could also use OpenAI Whisper for arbitrary audio, it's open source: https://github.com/openai/whisper