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4 Free Tools to Summarize YouTube Videos with GPT
Learn faster and better from videos using these tools
With the huge wave of AI tools being released daily, there’s no better time to use them to consume information more efficiently on the internet.
YouTube is a phenomenal platform for learning new things, but watching an entire video can be time-consuming.
So why not use GPT to summarize the main points?
Here are some tools I recently discovered that can help you summarize and “chat” with YouTube videos using GPT models.
To test these tools, let’s use this latest video by Vox on carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
We’ll first look at the tools that summarize the videos only.
YouTube Chapters summarize the video as it generates the transcription.
Just throw the link into the textbox and hit go, and the summary starts flowing in.
Here’s what the summary looks like.
You can also hit the “Shorten” button to get shorter summaries.
It also generates chapters, a useful tool if you’re a YouTuber.
You can install a Chrome extension to summarize YouTube videos in one click.
2. Reccap
Reccap makes YouTube videos “browsable” by transforming them into articles with summaries and key moments extracted.
After submitting the link, it gives a summary below.
Not bad!
But you can also get a detailed summary like the one below.
The detailed summary contains rich information about the video, including screencaps and main points for each section.
It’s like turning timestamp sections on YouTube into beautiful, descriptive paintings.
3. YoutubeDigest
YoutubeDigest is a Chrome extension that directly shows the summary on YouTube and uses ChatGPT in the backend.
First, you configure the settings and summarize the video as:
- Single paragraph
- article
- set of bullet points
- or set of titled sections
Here’s a sample of it summarizing the video as a TL;DR
Pretty cool!
Now for the tools that allow you to “chat” with the videos.
4. Readwise
Readwise released a new Reader app, a place to save everything in one place and highlight like a pro.
They have a Ghostreader, an AI “Copilot of Reading,” which can summarize text and answer questions for text and videos!
You get a 30-day free trial to try out Readwise’s new reader.
Protip: Sign up with my link to get an extra free month.
Here’s what you see once you save the video to Readwise Reader.
It generates a transcript at the bottom and a summary in the sidebar.
To toggle Ghostreader, hit Shift + G
You’re given the following options.
I asked the same bathtub question from earlier, and it returned an answer in the sidebar under the section “Notebook”.
I think this is a well-executed app, as readers can have the content saved, summaries, and answers to any questions in their “Notebook” all in one place, making it convenient to look back to it in the future.
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That’s all of them.
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