When looking for information or entertainment in YouTubethere is a usual dilemma. You find a video that seems to be what you want, but it has a long duration that can be of 10 minutes, 30 or 1 hour. If you do not enable audio transcription to quickly locate when you mention what interests you, Do you see it whole? Probably no. But now there is a way to access the information it contains Without having to spend your time and that is Gemini, Google’s AI.
With Gemini, you can get Summaries of any video on YouTube and ask follow -up questions about its content. For example, if it is a kitchen video, which gives you the list of the ingredients and the steps to follow. Or, in a podcast, that tells you what they have said about a certain topic or the time mark of when they treat it. That is, it allows you save a lot of time, find directly what you need and generate more information from it.
This capacity is available for All usersboth free and payment, since last April, but has improved since then. At that time, we had to select Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental among the language models available to be able to use it and It depended on the video of YouTube in question had enabled the transcription of the video so that Gemini could extract information.
Subsequently, Google simplified its offer of models and now offers 2.5 Flash and 2.5 PROmore capable than the previous ones, also to all users. Both can understand the visual content and audio of a video and will facilitate all the informationeven without transcripts to lend hand.
How to summarize YouTube videos with Gemini on a computer and on an iPhone
Google does not have a native application of Gemini for Windows or any other operating system that is not Android either iOS. Therefore, we are limited to the chatbot web version and operation is as simple as expected. Copy and paste the URL of the YouTube video that interests you in the Gemini dialog box And ask him to summarize it or ask about any aspect that interests you.
If you want to use this ability to Gemini in a iPhoneyou are more or less limited as in a computer. Although the AI has app for iOSthis does not enjoy the same integration as in Android. You will have to introduce the UR in the app and ask from there.
How to use Gemini’s app on Android to summarize videos
In Androidis where the AI of Google Displays all its abilities and, thanks to its integration with the system, it allows you to invoke it at any time and start chatting about what you have on the screen.
Keep in mind that you must have it configured as your main assistant, instead of the traditional Google. To do so, once you have installed Gemini On your mobile, you must follow these steps:
- Open Settings.
- Touches in Google And then on the tab All services.
- In the section Google Application Settingsclick on Finder, Assistant and Voice.
- You can select Google assistant either Gemini. In both cases is the option we are looking for.
- Touches in Google digital attendees already select Gemini.
Once configured Gemini As an assistant, open YouTube and put any video that is of interest. To use Geminiyou just have to Press the ignition button twice and the chatbot interface appears superimposed on the app of YouTube.
Gemini makes two suggestions: Ask questions about this video and Use live to talk about this video. Pressing in the first, Gemini will add the video to your interface to enter the questions you want about it. Touching in the second, you will go to the voice mode (Live) with which you can talk to Gemini about it.