On: Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos

[cphoover]

They do... contents of speech are one of multiple input data to youtube indexing.

Also you can search individual videos by showing transcript and pressing ctrl-f

[kellenmace → cphoover]

I have come to the opposite conclusion - YouTube does not reliably include spoken word/transcript matches in search results.

As I wrote in another comment, I've run tests where I open up the transcript of a video using these steps (https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230), copy a few of the words, then perform a search using those words across that channel, and the video I copied the words from doesn't appear on the list of results.

If Google decides that it's going to revamp YouTube search to include spoken word/transcription matches, that would make VideoMentions Search irrelevant– and I'd be okay with that!

In the meantime, I think this is a useful free tool for quickly finding spoken word matches within specific channels.

Thanks for checking it out!

[tomatowurst → cphoover]

I didn't know this...how do you show transcript?

[kellenmace → tomatowurst]

Hey @tomatowurst! You can search within the spoken words/transcript of a single YouTube video by following these steps: https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230

[tomatowurst → kellenmace]

This is so cool I had no idea this was possible I would often seek a particular segment manually. Thanks!

[kellenmace → tomatowurst]

Welcome! :)