Show HN: I built a tool to replace capcut audio transcription (meetcosmos.com)

26 points by correa_brian ↗ HN
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 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...

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FYI, CapCut is the mobile video editing app provided by ByteDance for creating TikTok content
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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.
Very cool product, just a heads up the footer links don’t seem to actually work on that link(I am using safari mobile)
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?