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by terranivium 9d ago
Thanks John, really interesting take - I feel like I gone with the gradual shift over time, and may not have voted with my wallet as strongly.
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by terranivium 14d ago
I have thought about this a lot. It might make us more considerate of what we're building, i think the speed at which we can mvp has made us less critical of what we output.
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Ask HN: How much does licensing approach influence purchase decisions?
2 points by terranivium 14d ago|2 comments
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by terranivium 1mo ago
great suggestion - the transcription tab is already quite limited for real estate. i recommend trying out the free trial to get a feel for the workflow.
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by terranivium 1mo ago
just watched Das Boot the other day, perfect timing!
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by terranivium 1mo ago
Descript is a timeline editor, so you delete text and the audio goes with it, and you come out with one finished piece. Vocal Slice goes the other way. You highlight a phrase and that span exports as its own file. Vocal Slice is also local
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by terranivium 1mo ago
a great use case example!
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by terranivium 1mo ago
the truly important thing from discussion with users is the actual workflow optimisation that the app provides, but i totally agree some of the copy on the website could use improvement and the comments on this show hn have made it clear th
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by terranivium 1mo ago
Really appreciate your thoughts on this, i totally agree - it is food for thought and as i monitor things it may make sense to tweak my approach. Bloating the tool would be counter productive for the sake of validating its cost, the idea lo
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by terranivium 1mo ago
the initial idea came from exporting lines and multiple takes for video game voice over delivery, but the functionality is there for doing longer clips too by making longer text selections. i'd love to get some feedback from this group
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by terranivium 1mo ago
Vocal Slice uses whisper for the speech-to-text step, then performs its own logic on the transcription and audio, search, take matching, audio slicing, etc.
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by terranivium 1mo ago
Thank you! speech to text models can be extremely accurate, but it really depends on the audio you feed it. the beauty here with Vocal Slice is that it doesn't need to be perfect because the user is given the tools to fine-tine the sel
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by terranivium 1mo ago
currently no, the app isn't open source - however the app itself announces and is quite transparent on how it functions. it takes your audio, transcribes it locally using speech to text, recording the time stamps of each word. when you
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by terranivium 1mo ago
the core part of this is understanding the needs of audio professionals and their workflow.
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by terranivium 1mo ago
the notices are available within the app, i'll make a note that these should also be publicly listed on the repo
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by terranivium 1mo ago
100% it is encouraged!
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by terranivium 1mo ago
Thanks tene, from your comment i believe this functionality does exist, and i realise that i don't express it very clearly on my website. Essentially when you select text, it tells you how many 'matches' that text has. So if
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by terranivium 1mo ago
Yeah that's one great use case - you could search for text in a movies audio stream and add that to a video clip for example.
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by terranivium 1mo ago
Thanks for your question - currently Vocal Slice only supports audio files, so you could download your youtube clip, extract the audio and run it through Vocal Slice. I have plans to natively support video in the future.
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by terranivium 1mo ago
great question - I had an older iteration of this project which was a much smaller scoped utility (without the waveform functionality) that was a one time purchase on itch. The idea with this project is to add additional features over time
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by terranivium 1mo ago
This is a cool idea but the website was not very performant. Having this as a desktop tool that can be tweaked/driven via claude could be a good approach
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by terranivium 1mo ago
Thank you for the amazing support so far, a few of you have reached out via email to share use cases I hadn't thought of. This tool was originally conceived around long voice acting recording sessions which were a pain to sift through,
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by terranivium 1mo ago
my childhood friend's grandparents were mars testers, their whole basement was full of mars bars!
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Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device(vocalslice.com)
51 points by terranivium 1mo ago|41 comments
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by terranivium 1mo ago
what you working on?
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by terranivium 1mo ago
this looks like a really interesting replacement for slack. Is this ready to be picked up by a small start-up?