Case study · SynthUp
Side projectProject period2023
Long-form content distillation
Built a workflow that turns lengthy video into concise, listenable summaries.
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Why
Long videos take time. A short recap gets to the point.
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Decision
A FastAPI service takes a YouTube link, fetches the captions and makes an extractive summary with a BERT summarizer, which keeps about a fifth of the text. The React app shows the recap and reads it aloud with the browser's voice.
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Trade-offs
It only works for videos that have captions, and the voice is the browser's, not a generated one.
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Outcome
A narrow MVP that works from a link to a spoken summary. It is finished but not live.
