youtube-voice-summarizer-elevenlabs_skill

Overview

This skill transforms any YouTube video into a podcast-style voice summary delivered in under 60 seconds. It extracts the transcript, generates a concise AI summary, and produces natural speech using ElevenLabs so you can share a ready-to-listen audio teaser. The result is an MP3 link plus optional full text and key takeaways.

How this skill works

When you submit a YouTube URL the service fetches the video transcript, runs an AI summarizer to create a tight, listening-friendly synopsis, and sends that text to ElevenLabs TTS to render a polished audio file. The system returns a job ID for asynchronous processing; poll the status until the job completes to retrieve the audio URL, teaser, summary, and key points. A separate quick-text endpoint is available for text-only summaries to save time and cost.

When to use it

• You need a shareable audio preview of long YouTube content for quick consumption.
• Creating daily episode teasers for newsletters, social, or podcasts.
• Preparing briefing clips from talks, lectures, or interviews.
• When audiences prefer listening over reading during commutes or workouts.
• Rapidly triaging video content to decide what to watch in full.

Best practices

• Ensure the video has captions (auto or manual) before requesting a summary.
• Use 'short' for quick hooks, 'medium' for balanced context, 'detailed' for deep summaries.
• Pick a voice style (podcast, news, casual, female_warm) that matches your audience.
• Host the service on a publicly accessible URL and set BASE_URL correctly for returned audio links.
• Poll status every few seconds and handle retries for transient API or network errors.

Example use cases

• Send a YouTube lecture URL and get a 60-second audio synopsis to preview key concepts.
• Auto-generate podcast-style highlights from interviews for social audio clips.
• Provide students with quick audio summaries of long educational videos.
• Create audio teasers for newsletters linking back to the original video.
• Offer users a fast way to evaluate conference talks before watching full sessions.