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Hidden away yes, but it’s amazing. It creates a totally new way of consuming informational videos and everyone here should try it. You can scroll through the transcription vertically and tap on any bit and the video instantly jumps to that point - basically the transcription is the new seek bar. And about 1000x better at the job. No more skipping back to somewhere roughly where you stopped paying attention and just letting it play for a bit until you get back into the thread - now you can jump around with surgical precision. It’s like how you can easily skim back and forth in a text article, but with a video. It’s a total game changer and I find it bizarre that it’s so hidden away so most people won’t find it. It also works particularly well when casting from your phone to a TV, using the phone as the navigator. Oh and the transcriptions are about 99% accurate, which is good enough for me.



That’s really interesting - on my own website I’ve extracted the captions to my videos and I was thinking of wiring it up so you could navigate the videos. I may actually get round to doing this now.




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