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I built something similar for my own usage, to get an overview of long lectures. I prefer bullet points to summaries, find it much easier to read (especially skim for useful info).

I have it as two command line tools right now: one to get the transcript[0], and one to convert a long text file into a bullet point summary (two passes) [1]:

The token math is approximate so it fails on foreign languages, but for English it works fine. (Use Tiktoken if you want it to be exact.)

[0] https://gist.github.com/avelican/4a161089b7391415a092833e7ac...

[1] https://gist.github.com/avelican/11f429d0bb62891439f144bd7c0...



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