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24 alternatives to I Built a Transcription CLI Because Uploading 4GB Videos Was Killing Me
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Read an article yesterday about the H.264 codec increasing their licensing fee by an astronomical amount. And as always, my first shot was how hard could it be to try and build a codec which could be that efficient. I've personally been on a drive to improve my ability to one-shot complex features, products, or make even surgical changes. It's been a few months since I've been doing that, and honestly, results have been great for both work and work/life balance. This was a fun experiment. It burned through tokens, but it helped me identify some more improvements I could make to my…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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make your scientific figures, datasets, & posters citable
Aug 2026 · figshare.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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2023 · voxweave.xyz · its alternatives →
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I've developed a simple AI-powered video-to-text converter. Upload your video, and within minutes, its content will be converted into clear, searchable text. Our AI accurately captures spoken language, identifies different speakers and accents, reviews the generated transcript, and exports it in your preferred format—including TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, or VTT. You can then edit it, use it for subtitles, or share it anywhere. Everything runs directly in your browser. I'm primarily interested in feedback on output quality, user experience, and any technical improvements worth exploring.
Aug 2026 · videocompress.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I built Transcrib.ee to help me generate transcripts for lectures on YouTube with no captions, especially multilingual lectures. I was constantly frustrated with videos that had no transcripts or inaccurate ones, so I built a tool and decided to share it with everyone. This tool uses Groq (an AI inference engine that's different from Grok and offers very fast processing) and OpenAI's Whisper model (really accurate in multilingual) to quickly transcribe any YouTube video, regardless of the language. It's been a game-changer for my studies! To make it even faster, I created a Chrome…
2024 · transcrib.ee · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m Ashu, founder of VideoDB. I’ve spent a big chunk of my life building video infrastructure. Not video creation. Video plumbing. The stuff you only learn after production breaks: timebases, VFR, keyframes, audio sync drift, container quirks, partial uploads, live streams, retries, backpressure, codecs, ffmpeg flags, cost blowups, and “why is this clip unseekable on one player but fine on another”. This week we shared VideoDB Skills, a skill pack that lets AI agents call those infra primitives directly, instead of you wiring pipelines with screenshots plus FFmpeg glue. Repo:…
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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My weekly(ish) video logs tracking my progress of building a completely sound statically typed language and structural editor. The motivation is to make lots of invalid programs unrepresentable.
2022 · petersaxton.uk · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I’m a bachelors student pursuing Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Signal processing and during the year I had the goal to build my first AI Tool and launch it. I got inspired by how capable Whisper is, and combined the Whisper CPP Bindings along with FFMPEG.Wasm to create a tool that is capable of transcribing and captioning video files that contain one or more video tracks. Along with that, I’ve also added the support for transcribing audio files with the option to export those outputs as .SRT, .WebVTT or simply a text file. All done privately on a user’s web browser with…
2023 · its alternatives →
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2023 · lineone.dev · its alternatives →
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2020 · youtu.be · its alternatives →
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2023 · blog.rok.strnisa.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · compressify.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · munoapp.com · its alternatives →
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Democratisation of local AI is key. I've been working on pushing the limits of commercial hardware, squeezing any extra bit possible. My Scientific Agentic AI hareness helped me to reallocate every single bit of it. I rewrote the Kernel, I went down the CUDA rabbit hole until I have been able to explain any bit and any ms of computational power involved in the process pushing the Qwen 30B-A3B from 8 tok7s to 19 tok/s with llama.cpp up to 22.2 tok/s with my project and 109 tok/s on not novel content and speeding up the prefill by 5-9X
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Over the past year I uploaded a bunch of videos to my personal channel. Most of them were short documentaries, news-style edits, or content covering current events and war. A lot of it ended up getting demonetized, age-restricted, or removed completely, usually without any clear reason or explanation. The worst part was not knowing what caused it. You upload something, it seems fine for a while, and then it disappears or gets buried. I spent days editing videos that ended up dead in the water because of things I couldn’t see coming. I started building a tool to help with this. Just something…
2025 · frametwo.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · load.wondernetwork.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · trytldw.ai · its alternatives →
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I made a simple, easy to use transcription app which is free! Thanks everyone for giving it a go!
2024 · transcripto.xyz · its alternatives →
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2024 · app.rapidata.ai · its alternatives →
- 21CT
Built this at a Startup Weekend last November. We've been sitting on this code for months. Would love to have some people signup and throw us a little feedback. Clearly this isn't finished, but with a little crowd support, we could just wrap it up in a weekend. A few things: - Works with Youtube and Vimeo, probably a few others. - Web UI is still pretty sloppy - zero onboarding. sorry. - We have native iPhone and iPad clients that are a handful of bugs from being shipped. Anyone interested in beta testing them, shoot me an email at ddinch :at: gmail. We will beam you up via TestFlight (great…
2011 · clpstr.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · memordo.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · utter.io · its alternatives →
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Tired of watching videos at 2x just to get to the point?
Apr 2026 · clipnote-seven.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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