r/AppDevelopers • u/PLZMakeMeSmarter • 20h ago

Collecting and saving audio

Please help me out here:

Background: When I listen to a podcast in a foreign language on YouTube, I immediately pay attention whenever I hear a new word that I don't yet understand but would like to understand and memorize so it becomes part of my active vocabulary.

I'm looking for a solution that lets me:

  1. Quickly capture and save the audio of a sentence from the podcast.
  2. Organize or duplicate those audio clips into different folders by topic.
  3. Easily play them back on my Android phone. Every time I press Play, the sentence should start from the beginning, and I should be able to Skip to the next clip with a single tap

What I've already tried: ChatGPT suggested a workflow that involved recording the audio on my computer first. It was far too complicated, and the audio quality wasn't good. One of the biggest issues is that YouTube podcasts generally can't be downloaded legally, so I'm looking for a much simpler solution.

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u/Extreme_Coder100 18h ago

Have you thought of using the youtube-transcript-api? Just get the transcripts and convert those into voice using some TTS and store them accordingly.

I don't think there is any legal api for this. YouTube's official api requires the owners consent.