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How Microsoft Copilot in the Edge Browser can help you learn from YouTube videos

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MichaelGannotti
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Mar 01, 2024

Update: This feature no longer works. Copilot no longer can access the videos.

How Microsoft Copilot in the Edge Browser can help you learn from YouTube videos

A new feature that lets you summarize, transcribe, and ask questions from any YouTube video

YouTube is a great source of information and learning for professionals, especially in the fields of technology, science, and education. You can find thousands of videos on topics ranging from programming languages, frameworks, and tools, to data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, to web development, design, and user experience, and much more. However, watching YouTube videos can also be time-consuming, distracting, and overwhelming. You might not have the time or patience to watch a long video, or you might get lost in the details and miss the main points. You might also have questions that are not answered in the video, or you might want to review the content later without having to watch the whole video again.

That's where Microsoft Copilot in the Edge Browser can help you. Microsoft Copilot is a new feature that lets you interact with any YouTube video in a smart and convenient way. You can use Microsoft Copilot to summarize the video, create a transcript, and ask questions from the video content. You can also save the summaries, transcripts, and answers for later reference, or share them with others. Microsoft Copilot can help you learn more from YouTube videos, without wasting time or losing focus.

In this video Microsoft's Darryl Rowe shows how you can leverage the power of Microsoft Copilot in the Edge browser to summarize YouTube videos, generate Youtube transcripts, ask questions of the video, and more! 

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  • FHokkanen's avatar
    FHokkanen
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 26, 2024

    MichaelGannotticheers for the reply.  Yes, I fiddled with all the settings.  After testing it with another coworker it appears that you have to leave this box checked in order for it to work (I was advised to uncheck it by our security folks).  When I 'confirm and continue chatting' (unchecked), it still continues thinking as if it will be able to finish the request.  Then it spits out the two responses above.  I would expect it to say, without that permission I cannot perform your request.  After testing it with the box checked, it does perform the function as Darryl demonstrates in your video above.

     

     

    Looking at the title of the permissions prompt, it's pretty silly that it wasn't clearer sooner, but I'm happy to get it figured out.

     

  • lasse_p's avatar
    lasse_p
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 27, 2024

    Do they know what they are doing?

    This was one of my main reasons to switch from Chrome to Edge and using copilot in the side bar for youtube summaries.

    It was REALLY convenient. My guess is that a lot have been using that feature.

    It will not even do it when you feed it the URL, now.

  • FHokkanen's avatar
    FHokkanen
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 26, 2024

    I'm not sure what the difference between our experiences but I tried this same thing for videos on MS Stream, Vimeo, and YouTube.  Used the same exact prompt and several variations to try to produce the right type of response. 

     

    It says is looking for a video to summarize, then... "I’m sorry, but I need more information to summarize the video. Can you please provide more details about the video you are referring to?"

     

    I also tweak a few settings and I get it to say. "Certainly!.... If you’re looking to summarize a long YouTube video, there are several AI-powered tools that can help you achieve that. Here are a few options: summarize.tech, VidSummary, QuickRecp.ai,  Video Summarizer by Mindgrasp AI, YouTube Summarized and several other products." 

     

    I have an enterprise Copilot license, I'm logged into my work MS account in the Browser, I'm toggled to the "Work" versus "Web." Other coworkers do get it to work.

     

     

  • Lutz_Lemmer's avatar
    Lutz_Lemmer
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 28, 2024

    It works on my personal account but not my business one and there I have the licensed version.