Using AI to Summarize a YouTube Video by Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Chan

Two Free AI Apps that Summarized Chan's 42-Minute Video Explaining the Historical Context behind Campus Protests

Campus protests in support of Gaza started in April and is still ongoing as of this writing. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that there are activists protesting in 90 institutions in different USA states, many of them in the north-east and California. What is the story behind their protests? Bestseller author of the Harbinger Series, Jonathan Cahn, released a 42-minute video [click here for link] to explain the student protests from a Christian point of view. Can artificial intelligence or AI help summarize a long YouTube video quickly?

Google AI List of Apps

Google Search AI gave me Chrome Extensions to help summarize the video. I do not like to install them so I looked for web-based free apps instead and came up with summarize.tech and YouTube Summarized. Summarize.tech allowed me to get a summary without logging-in. However, YouTube Summarized asked me to use my Google or Microsoft log-in to get the results. Both gave timestamps and detailed summaries. However, latter gave better looking output.

Sample Summary Output

I watched Cahn’s video and the summary given by YouTube Summarized is spot-on. Moreover, the output is easy to read like the one below, complete with timestamps.

Gemini’s List of Apps is Different

Although Google also owns Gemini, it generated a different list of YouTube Video Summary Apps.

All in all, we can save time if we use AI to help us summarize long videos then decide if we want to watch some or all of the video. Remember, we should be good stewards of our resources including time.