Daniel writes guides on how to use the internet, explainers on how modern technology works, and the occasional smartwatch or e-reader review. He especially likes deep diving into niche topics that ...

Google has announced new searchable transcripts for videos you store in Google Drive. The feature is rolling out to all Google Workspace users, starting today and finishing by March 26th. The ...

After launching automatically generated captions for videos last year, Google Drive is now launching searchable video transcripts. Google announced that starting Monday, Drive users can now view and ...

Did you know that instead of watching a YouTube video, you can read it? That sounds extremely counter-productive in the age of video-everything, but there’s a semi-hidden transcript function on ...

I’ve been experimenting with different automations and command line utilities to handle audio and video transcripts lately. In particular, I’ve been working with Simon Willison’s LLM command line ...

YouTube videos are an amazing source of knowledge. But they’re often long, and trying to find a specific shred of info within an hour-long video isn’t exactly a great use of your time. Google will ...

What are transcripts and captions? A transcript is a written version of the audio contained in a video or audio file. Depending on how it is being used, a transcript may or may not include timestamps.

As I teased yesterday in my story about processing video transcripts on the Mac using Simon Willison’s llm CLI, I wanted to write about the shortcut that actually generates those raw video transcripts ...

Why is video such a powerful medium for pairing with text transcripts? The primary reason is simply because we have become a visual society. From the early days of TV to the memes of TikTok, video has ...