You raise a good point. Maybe there should be an effort by creators to publish their videos on other platforms with different licenses too, therefore removing any advantage Google has in training AI using others’ content. Legalities aside, I find it really distasteful that Google can claim exclusivity over a use of the content that they were never owed. Let’s be honest - they probably granted themselves that legal “right” with some obscure update to their terms of service.
According to the preview, some of these (30 thousand results?) are "Wikipedia article audios"[1], so text turned into speech and now turned back to text
OpenAI's Whisper is a good transcribing tool. You can use MacWhisper for free and it uses the OpenAI Whisper technology locally on your Mac.That is if you're using a Mac. I'm not sure about Windows or Linux.
https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 22.9 ms ] thread[1]: https://huggingface.co/datasets/PleIAs/YouTube-Commons/viewe...
Indeed it could be useful for "my bot runs its own clickbait channel" type of thing.
What are cost-effective ways to convert audio to transcript?
It should support some non-english languages such as French, German, Portuguese, Spanish.