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mrkn1 65 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTo...

Youtube has transcripts on most videos, not all. The others don't expose them. If you mean the "transcript APIs" for TikTok/IG/X, they are all transcribing audio like yapsnap does. If you have a way to pull native ones, let me know, genuinely curious.

charcircuit 65 days ago [–]

YouTube's is transcribing the audio too. The other do expose them as subtitles as the video is playing.

mrkn1 65 days ago | [–]

Yes fair point, asr cached and exposed. I meant to draw the line more on fetchable or not.

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