Nothing turns me away faster from a #youtube video than lack of #captions. I don't just mean manmade #cc. I mean yes, ideally all videos would have professional #subtitles, but that's obviously wishing for way too much. But even auto cc are really helpful to me, and if a video doesn't have that, unless I'm on my computer where I can use chrome auto transcribe, I almost always don't watch the video, because I'm just going to be frustrated only understanding 15% of the words said.
@zperk13 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp to download them.
https://github.com/openai/whisper to transcribe them.
https://mpv.io/ to play them.
@ken_fallon If I'm on my computer, I use chrome's auto transcribe. If I'm not on my computer, yt-dlp and whisper are definitely not an option. Funnily enough, I already have both of those downloaded, for entirely separate reasons.
@zperk13 I tend to download everything via the RSS feeds so I rarely ever go directly to the site