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Hey HN, we created a free audio/video transcription and editor that you can use for free. You can detect cheers, applause, filler words, edit transcript to edit audio, create audiograms and export in different formats. We also have a chrome extension that transcribes any audio/video on the page you are on. After transcription you can follow along with the audio and read the transcribed text while the audio is playing. You can search for spoken content in a podcast or other audio/video content in your browser. There are some limitations, our product only works on Chrome and…
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Easily transcribe audio files and highlight key insights
2024
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I know there are various tools that are supposed to make this easy, but I couldn't find anything that did everything I wanted, so I made this today for fun. The web-based offerings all take forever and seem flaky, and you need to process one video at a time, with no control over the transcription settings. In contrast, my script lets you convert a whole playlist in bulk with full control over everything. It's truly easy to use-- you can clone the repo, install to a venv, and be generating a folder full of high quality transcript text files in under 5 minutes. All you need to do is supply the…
2023 · github.com
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2024 · downloadyoutubesubtitle.com
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A free, open source, Descript alternative. Runs on-device.
Aug 2026 · getrescript.com
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Instant audio & voice-to-text transcription in Chrome
Aug 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com
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I originally added this to my site to speed up my video editing process. Last year I started a youtube channel and for some of my longer videos it's annoying to rely on youtube or capcut to transcribe when Whisper is open source. Capcut also recently updated their T&Cs to say they own your content if you use their app, so I cancelled my subscription. Another use-case I have is recording my claude prompts as audio, transcribing them, and then pasting them into my terminal. I mostly work on the CLI (claude, ffmpeg, whisper), but I wanted to make a browser version. Not reinventing the wheel…
2025 · meetcosmos.com
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