Show HN: CTRL-F for YouTube Videos (opens in new tab)

> visit a YouTube video with captions, which is almost all of them

Depending on what you're watching, you might never come across a video with good subtitles but rather Youtube's auto-generated subtitles.

Whisper can do a better job in a lot of cases, but not all... I wonder if they've had multiple generations of auto-captioning and not gone back and redone the ones that were done earlier.

This extension is really interesting to me because in the past I've tried (and failed) to make a similar one that adds a new .vtt to the list of available subtitles for the video. I sometimes struggle with auditory processing, especially in a noisy environment, and following along with subtitles helps me out immensely, so it's frustrating when the auto-generated subtitles are poor quality. I've bookmarked the extension to see if I can fork it for that purpose in the future.

you are correct, originally youtube didnt have this when i made it in 2019 with deepspeech, now they do but i just always preferred the idea of it being on the timebar to just click and go right to it. tbh i should just make a simple addon to take the youtube timestamps and slap it onto the timebar. also for the split chunks this would have no problem there as the transcript is actually stored in a json file, so any concurrent words will always be matchable for phrases. ofc downside being you need to run the model lol

bookmarklet to "Show transcript"

    javascript:document.querySelector('button[aria-label="Show transcript"]').click()

<https://getbookmarklets.com/scripts/data%3Atext%2Fjavascript...>