Synthesize conference talks

Paste a YouTube playlist or a list of talk URLs, name the debate you are tracking, and Anara reads each transcript and returns where speakers agree, where they diverge, and what stays open. Use it to follow a field through its talks instead of watching hours of video.

Prompt

A computational neuroscience graduate student tracks a debate across twelve symposium talks.

I am tracking the debate on neural oscillation theories, specifically the disagreement between phase-coding and rate-coding accounts of temporal binding. I have a playlist of talks from the Neural Oscillations Symposium 2025.

Playlist URL: [paste the YouTube playlist URL here]

For each talk in the playlist, identify:
1. The speaker's main argument or finding
2. Their position on phase-coding versus rate-coding (or their explicit refusal to take a position)
3. Any empirical result they present that speaks to this debate

Then write a 300-word synthesis across all talks: where speakers converge, where they diverge, and what the major unresolved questions are that emerged from the symposium. Name specific speakers when citing their positions.

What to add to your library

• Required: a YouTube playlist URL or a list of individual YouTube video URLs.
• Required: the research question or debate you are tracking across the talks.
• Optional: papers by the speakers, so Anara can cross-reference talk claims against their published work.

What you get

• A per-talk summary of each speaker's main argument and position on your debate.
• A cross-talk synthesis of where the symposium converged, diverged, and left questions open.
• A way to decide which talks are worth watching in full.

Follow-ups

Import one talk for deeper analysis.

Import the transcript from the fifth talk in the playlist to my library as a document called "Buzsaki 2025 Oscillations Talk." Once it is imported, I want to ask follow-up questions about the specific evidence he presents for phase-coding.

Compare against last year's symposium.

I have the synthesis from the 2024 Neural Oscillations Symposium saved as a note. Compare the positions described in this year's synthesis to last year's. Where has the debate moved, and where are the same disagreements still unresolved?

Tips

• Name the specific disagreement, not just the topic, so Anara classifies each speaker's position.
• For playlists over ten talks, ask for batches of five with a partial synthesis after each.
• Transcripts from smaller channels may be missing or noisy. If a talk comes back thin or a position looks wrong, check the transcript directly.
• Save the synthesis as a note and add new talks to it through the year.