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Products that do what Instant video edits with local Whisper models (macOS) does

Hi HN, I’m Ben, long time web developer but this is my first time building a macOS app. I film a lot of tutorial and talking-head content and wanted to make it easier to chop out mistakes. So I built CutWord, a macOS app that lets you mark cue points with voice commands while you’re recording. Once the app downloads a Whisper model everything runs locally, so nothing leaves your machine. You can export a trimmed video directly from the app or export a FCPXML file that can be imported into Final Cut or DaVinci Resolve for finishing. Built with SwiftUI and AVFoundation. TestFlight:…

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    Speech to text with smarter transcription

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    Aloud118

    Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run

    17d ago · aloud.sh

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    Local transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, + export

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    Local push-to-talk dictation for Mac

    Jul 2026 · leftinverse.com

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    Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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    Walkie228

    Free local AI voice dictation tool

    Apr 2026

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    High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac

    2023

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    Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS

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    Dictato93

    Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

    Feb 2026

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    Our team is filled with technologists and creators, and when we record and edit videos, 80% of the time is spent chopping up the video, removing silences, and picking the right takes. So we decided to build a tool that did that for you — or at least get you there most of the way! Our initial implementation is somewhat naïve and uses a user configurable silence threshold that just reads in volume levels. In the future, we’d like to use a frequency-based approach that focuses on the human voice. We’re also open to ideas, so let us know if you have any!

    2022 · kapwing.com

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    On-device Mac dictation that types into any app

    Aug 2026 · zenproducts.ai

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    Speakmac190

    The offline dictation macOS should have had

    Nov 2025

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    Yap140

    Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device

    Jul 2026 · frigade.com

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    Local dictation for macOS without the subscription

    May 2026

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    Harness local AI for notes

    Jul 2026 · voice-to-md.xajik0.workers.dev

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    Spoke102

    Private voice-to-text for macOS. Hold a key, speak, done.

    Mar 2026

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    On-device voice recorder that transcribes + exports Markdown

    Jun 2026

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    Spokenly178

    Type 4x faster with your voice

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    Stenox72

    Your voice, perfectly transcribed in every app & browser

    Jan 2026

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    Drag & drop voice generator tool

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    Hello all, I made a small transcription app for your Mac based on OpenAI’s Whisper. Would love some feedback. My plan is to make it easy to load weights from any fine-tuned whisper model to enable specialized dictation for any subfield. It’s still early in development. Thanks!

    2023 · twitter.com

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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…

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    Cuto106

    One prompt, commercial-grade video edits

    Feb 2026

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    Local AI dictation for Windows

    19d ago · whisperstream.io

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