Webinar recordings, presentation videos, interviews, lengthy lectures and video courses. Whatever it is, Descript's YouTube video summarizer can turn it into digestible text or short-form video summaries using AI.
Start by creating a new video project in Descript. If you have a copy of the YouTube video or recording you want to summarize, you can drag and drop it into your project to upload it, or create a new recording to capture your screen, computer audio, mic, and/or camera.
Descript will automatically generate a transcript based on your YouTube video. To create a summary based on this transcript, go to the Actions menu and select Ask AI > Summarize… You can use the default prompt as is to get a quick summary, or you can provide specific instructions on how you’d like the summary to be formatted—a specific word count target or number of bullet points, for example—and it’ll summarize the video content according to your preferences.
Give the AI feedback based on the result to refine the output. When you're happy, you can select Copy to clipboard and paste it into your YouTube description, blog post, newsletter, or anywhere you want.
Webinar recordings, presentation videos, interviews, lengthy lectures and video courses. Whatever it is, Descript's YouTube video summarizer can turn it into digestible text or short-form video summaries using AI.
Start by creating a new video project in Descript. If you have a copy of the YouTube video or recording you want to summarize, you can drag and drop it into your project to upload it, or create a new recording to capture your screen, computer audio, mic, and/or camera.
Descript will automatically generate a transcript based on your YouTube video. To create a summary based on this transcript, go to the Actions menu and select Ask AI > Summarize… You can use the default prompt as is to get a quick summary, or you can provide specific instructions on how you’d like the summary to be formatted—a specific word count target or number of bullet points, for example—and it’ll summarize the video content according to your preferences.
Give the AI feedback based on the result to refine the output. When you're happy, you can select Copy to clipboard and paste it into your YouTube description, blog post, newsletter, or anywhere you want.
Most online tools and Chrome extensions are limited to text-only YouTube summaries. But with Descript, you have access to a multimedia editor with a built-in video summarizer. You can generate bite-size summaries of online videos in plain text, AI-voiced audio, and captioned video formats.
Whether you need a summary to include in your YouTube description or email newsletter, or you want quick takeaways from a recorded meeting, Descript’s flexible video summarizer has you covered.
Descript’s built-in transcription feature boasts industry-leading accuracy—and it’s also available in 22+ different languages, so language barriers are a thing of the past. With Descript, you can access video summary features that work even when the original video content is in a different language.
Descript is capable of generating different kinds of YouTube summaries—from bite-sized texts and bullet point lists to recaps in audio and video formats. It can also generate meeting notes and highlight videos.
Yes, our AI-powered video summarizer tool can generate video summaries in bullet points, too. You just have to specify bullet points when using the Ask AI action to extract all the key points and essential ideas from the original video.
Yes, you can create summaries in video format with Descript. Plus, there’s more than one way to do that. Once AI turns your video into bite-sized text, you can turn that summary into audio using text-to-speech and make your own summarization video with animated captions. Alternatively, you can use the AI clip finder to flag important moments, and duplicate them into a new Composition to create a highlight reel video with progress bars and dynamic waveform graphics.
Unlike other video summary tools, Descript allows you to summarize audio in text or bite-sized audio and video formats. Descript will automatically generate a transcript, and you can ask the AI to summarize it for you. You can then use the Text-To-Speech feature to turn specific bits of text into audio using one of our stock voices—or even your own AI-generated voice clone.
Descript will automatically extract the main points and central ideas when asked to summarize any kind of video content. That said, you can also instruct the AI tool to pull out specific points when generating a video summary. This option is especially useful for virtual meeting summaries and can save you precious time when going over lengthy video presentations and interviews.
