alt Hacker NewsSo, this project consists of a ~175 line README and a ~500 line Python program that glues yt-dlp and Kroko together. Neat.
I guess if it encourages you to install and figure out how to use ffmpeg, yt-dlp, kroko, numpy, and onnx that's a good thing. Sometimes just knowing a thing is possible is a huge benefit.
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iririririr • today at 12:51 AM
I see the value as a centralized anti-content-blocker.
This repo is now a good way to centralize hacks around the sure-to-come blockers those platforms will add to prevent download.
Just like uBlockOrigin was a way to centralize all the "just run this greasemonkey script" comments, I can see this getting a huge following for people who really value transcriptions.
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thank you. You nailed the actual value, that's right. The real win is just knowing you can do this on a laptop CPU, offline, no GPU or cloud bill. There are tiny done-for-you details, like rescaling token timestamps back to real time after the atempo speedup so --timestamps doesn't lie to you, but they are minor.