Lexika
AI
speech search
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
6 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea that makes search of video audio useful
From 3 comments
Really well executed product in the 'why doesn't this exist already' category!
bedeho on HNI would love to contact you regarding using this for sales phone calls. Often times, my employees don't remember an important portion of some conversation. This makes it really…
tonydiv on HNThe potential for use finding gifs is enormous.
duaneb on HN
Objections
Only works on a known video URL, not general search
From 1 comment
This only works if you know the particular youtube video the phrase appears in. Scraping the content would be more useful, but I'm guessing that gets shut down quick.
fiatmoney on HN
Transcription errors in featured example
From 1 comment
A heads up on the homepage, the video you featured Steve Carrell and Jimmy Fallon with the keyword "pantaloons" is captioned as "the wrong kind pantaloons ah", when the spoken…
jjzhang on HN
Possible conflict with YouTube terms of service
From 1 comment
Do you have an agreement with Google? I'm guessing this is against their TOS, especially considering they're doing a lot of work in this area themselves.
fiatmoney on HN
Search button missing on mobile Chrome
From 2 comments
the Search button is absent (on a mobile chrome). Only the text field. How to submit a request?
avodonosov on HNChrome on android. In Firefox on android I can see the label "youtube video url" (in Chrome I thought it's a query field for words to be searched). But in Firefox the on the page…
avodonosov on HN
Requests
Support for other languages
From 2 comments
Could this be used for subtitling videos? I have a lot of anime VHS tapes in Japanese.
Hydraulix989 on HNWhen it supports other languages, please post a link to it on /r/languagelearning. It would be very helpful for alot of people!
superplussed on HN
Multi-video search
From 1 comment
You are right that you need to input the particular video for now, but we are expanding to include multi-video search (constantly indexing in the background). Right now the use…
stephensonsco on HN
Fix domain redirect from lexika.co
From 1 comment
A heads up on the homepage, the video you featured Steve Carrell and Jimmy Fallon with the keyword "pantaloons" is captioned as "the wrong kind pantaloons ah", when the spoken…
jjzhang on HN
Questions
Does it work on videos without subtitles?
From 1 comment
Will this work with videos that aren't already subtitled? I haven't gotten one without subtitles to work yet maybe I'm just not waiting long enough though.
pmorici on HN
Is there an agreement with Google?
From 1 comment
Do you have an agreement with Google? I'm guessing this is against their TOS, especially considering they're doing a lot of work in this area themselves.
fiatmoney on HN
Alternatives named
YouTube Caption Search
From 1 comment
YouTube actually had something like this available for a while (or still does this?) through Caption Search.[1] If a video had captions available (either user provided or…
tsurantino on HN
YTFind Chrome extension
From 1 comment
I saw this chrome extension a while back that embeds a search button directly in YouTube and searches for keywords/phrases in the video:…
xasos on HN