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Permacomputing

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Video tiredness, video appropriateness (self.permacomputing)
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I used to really like youtube for all the interesting content - especially tutorial videos of all kind. Lately I have become very tired of watching moving images for content that could be delivered in text form - where I can choose to read and take it in at my own pace, in silence.

I agree that not all content can be delivered in this way, videos are incredibly helpful with a lot of stuff, but I wish more stuff could be (also) readable instead of watchable, or even listenable. Is in part an autism/accessibility thing, but also plays into my thoughts about the appropriateness of resource use for information recording/presentation/transfer from an Solarpunk computing perspective.

What do you think?

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[–] activistPnk 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure how to fix any of this but I’d love to find a way

Possible fix: someone uses #Invidious or #YoutubeDL to fetch a video file (in fact, Invidious enables you to fetch just the audio stream). Pipe that into a speech-to-text tool. Then ideally you should be able to edit it to make a readable abstract/truncated transcript.

In a perfect world™ you could post that to the Invidious page for that video to help others. But that’s not reality at the moment. Someone should submit an Invidious feature request so volunteers can share their text extracts.

[–] JacobCoffinWrites 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would be very cool

[–] activistPnk 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The fix was in place all along:

https://youtubetranscript.com

[–] JacobCoffinWrites 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you! Definitely using this next time