Inspiration
As students and active members on commitees and societies we often find that it is necessary to review videos from either lectures or meetings. Unfortunately, meetings can easily last a couple hours and lectures can be as long as three hours. It is impossible to stay completely focused for the entire time and so we are forced to review the content. This process itself can involve watching videos at high speed or inefficiently scrolling, we wanted to find a better way.
What it does
Our app uses googles captioning software on Youtube videos to make the content of the video searchable and to return a completed transcript of the content. Furthermore it provides the opportunity for people who attended the meetings and lectures to submit their own notes for review.
How we built it
The back end is built in python with a front end built using react-native. Python libraries were used to obtain captions from youtube videos, and put through a search algorithm to figure out the times at which the search terms appear. The PDF was created and styled fpdf.
What's next for Note it
We are hoping to continue to refine the app. Allowing the sharing to be more efficient and the transcripts to be more aesthetic. Furthermore, in the future we hope to use AI to help and create study/summary notes of the videos for quick reference. This could be accomplished with ML and the submitted notes.
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