Show HN: I built a tool to replace capcut audio transcription
meetcosmos.comI 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 here, just using Huggingface/Xenova Transformers.js to run Whisper in the browser with a background worker.
You can see a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICLOvAq9vKE
If you're interested in building this yourself, there's a bunch of examples on Huggingface https://huggingface.co/collections/Xenova/transformersjs-dem... FYI, CapCut is the mobile video editing app provided by ByteDance for creating TikTok content That's what it used to be. Now it's bytedance's premiere/veed competitor The landing page looks great, and a free, privacy-preserving transcription tool is a fantastic idea.
Infrastructure-wise, how much does it cost to host the service at the moment? What services are you using to deploy it? It would be awesome if there were a microphone button so I could record on the site instead of having to upload an audio file. You can record directly on the site! I can make it more prominent but there's a Microphone button under the file drop. Lmk if you don't see it. Oh hell yeah, I see it now. You have a new daily active user in me. lets goooo. thank you! i also made it red so it's easier to catch. appreciate the feedback. Very cool product, just a heads up the footer links don’t seem to actually work on that link(I am using safari mobile) woah, you're right. thanks for catching! fixing that now fixed! thanks again