Better Alternative to ChatGPT Youtube Summarizer
Youtube is home to millions of videos covering every topic imaginable. From educational lectures and how-to tutorials to podcasts and entertainment, Youtube has it all. The challenge is finding the time to watch all of this valuable content.
This is where Youtube summaries come in handy. A good transcript summary allows you to quickly grasp the key messages and highlights of a video before investing your precious time in watching the full version. For educational videos, summaries help reinforce learning. For entertainment videos, they give you the satisfying feeling of being “in the loop” even if you don’t have time to watch. No matter the genre, summaries empower viewers to consume more content in less time.
Problem with existing AI Tools/Extensions
Existing ChatGPT based Youtube summaries often fall short when it comes to providing comprehensive and accurate summaries. This is due to ChatGPT’s limited content capacity, which forces most ChatGPT-powered chrome extensions or programs to heavily truncate transcripts in order to stay under ChatGPT’s 2000 token limit. As a result, many important details in the original text are lost before ChatGPT even has a chance to summarize it.
I’ve been in the lookout for an effective Youtube Summarizer for quite sometime now and also checked a lot of publicly avaialable code there. To give an example, I am referring a codebase here for popular YouTube_Summary_with_ChatGPT chrome extension.
Here is a sample code snippet from this popular ChatGPT Youtube summarizer extension.
export function getSummaryPrompt(transcript) {
return `Title: “${document.title
.replace(/\n+/g, ” “)
.trim()}“\nVideo Transcript: “${truncateTranscript(transcript)
.replace(/\n+/g, ” “)
.trim()}“\nVideo Summary:`;
}
// Seems like 15,000 bytes is the limit for the prompt
const limit = 14000; // 1000 is a buffer
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if (bytes > limit) {
// Get only even numbered chunks from textArr
const evenTextData = textData.filter((t, i) => i % 2 === 0);
result = getChunckedTranscripts(evenTextData, textDataOriginal);
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function truncateTranscript(str) {
const bytes = textToBinaryString(str).length;
if (bytes > limit) {
const ratio = limit / bytes;
const newStr = str.substring(0, str.length * ratio);
return newStr;
}
return str;
}
As you can see, it is truncating the transcript to 15,000 bytes before sending it to ChatGPT. Any information after the first 15,000 bytes is discarded.
However, there is a better solution. Our new AI tool leverages the Claude 2 interface from Anthropic to generate superior Youtube summaries without compromising on detail or accuracy. Here’s why our tool offers a better alternative:
More Precise Summaries
With access to up to 100,000 tokens, Anthropic’s Claude 2 can process significantly more text than ChatGPT before generating a summary. This means no critical information needs to be truncated prematurely. While ChatGPT based tools can summarize Youtube videos of up to about 20 minutes Our AI tool can summarize Youtube videos of length up to 2-3 hours based on the content . while retaining all relevant details.
For example, our tool uses Claude’s advanced natural language capabilities to intelligently summarize transcripts while preserving key information:
def summarize_transcript(transcript):
summary = claude.summarize(transcript, max_tokens=100000)
return summary
Free to Use
While access to Claude 2 is currently limited to the US and UK, our tool makes this powerful AI interface available globally for free. No need to join a waitlist or pay a fee. Just go to this link and start using it.
Concise and Effective
Our tool produces summaries that are clear, concise and easy to digest – capturing only the most important elements of the transcript. The result is a summary that is focused yet highly informative.
Harness the Power of Latest AI Tools
We’re always in the lookout for better AI Technology to build free tools for our community. This is yet another example where Our tool puts this advanced interface to work for you, allowing you to benefit from Claude 2’s superior natural language capabilities.
Iif you’ve been disappointed by existing ChatGPT-based Youtube summarizers, give our tool a try. The combination of Anthropic’s Claude 2 interface and an intelligent summarize-first approach makes our AI tool the best ChatGPT alternative for generating accurate and useful Youtube summaries. Give it a shot today!
