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Show HN: Vocova – Paste a link, get a transcript in 100 languages (vocova.app)

1 points by jmcraft ↗ HN
I built Vocova to solve a workflow I kept running into: you have a YouTube video, a Zoom recording, or a podcast episode, and turning it into accurate, readable text means juggling three different tools – one to download, one to transcribe, one to translate.

Vocova lets you paste a link from 1,000+ platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Zoom, Google Meet, etc.) or upload a file, and get back a transcript with speaker labels, timestamps, and optional translation into 145+ languages – all in one step.

I treat this product like a piece of craft. Every interaction is intentional – the smoothest possible flow from input to output, the highest transcription success rate I can achieve, and a UI that I'd be proud to put my name on. Small things matter: how naturally speaker labels read, how precisely timestamps align with every word, how a bilingual export looks like a polished document rather than a raw data dump.

A few details:

- Speaker diarization with one-click rename and merge - Bilingual side-by-side view with inline editing - Export as PDF, DOCX, SRT, VTT, TXT, CSV - Shareable transcript links – no sign-up required for viewers

Free to start, no credit card required. I'd love feedback on the transcription quality and the overall experience.

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jmcraft
Hey, maker here. Happy to answer any questions.

If you want to try it out: https://vocova.app – paste any YouTube or video link and you'll get a transcript in seconds.

A couple of things I'm particularly proud of:

1. The paste-and-go workflow – no downloading, no file conversion. Just paste a URL. 2. Bilingual export – if you translate, you get a side-by-side document that actually looks good enough to share with a client.

Would love to hear what you think and how you'd use it.