Can you enable usage of macos speechanalyzer?
Hmm, I don’t think that’s exposed through a web api yet. Will probably have to do it when this becomes an Electron desktop app (soon).
Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
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Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
#42Follow https://x.com/wassgha for updates/new releases.
Currently on the roadmap:
- Saving/re-opening projects – done
- Importing transcripts (SRT / VTT / JSON) – done
- Support for audio/podcasts – done
- Importing plain text transcripts (auto sync)
- Manually editing word boundaries
- Splitting / reordering of scenes
- Desktop app
- Support for Apple SpeechAnalyzer to remove the need to download a speech model
Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
yes, and the chef was a robot, so less of an issue with them in your house, and the robot only cost 50 cents. (seeing the comment that it took 4 hours or so of AI time) that's exactly what I see.
Yep, a very subsidised chef
yes. and I tell everyone that I expect that to change, so don't get used to the current status quo. We won't be able to build with top notch semi-unllimited robots for 20-$30 per month after the IPOs I am sure..
However we are seeing models come out like Gema and the distilation accused that are likely capable of building a browser based Descript, or Quickbooks (as most people would use them) and many other saas type things.. just running on a walmart PC for free at this point and going forward right?
So the future is now, the platform and url may change, but it looks like most software and art will be reproducible for 50 cents or a bit more one way or another. Maybe not as polished, maybe missing a few things that elitists point to.
That's not going to replace the software subscriptions for the fortune 500. Yet it's already replaced several saas monthly / yearly payments for me.
Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
#44Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
#45Looks like Im the only person who actually tried it? Very underbaked, bordering on useless - single word deletions dont even register. Multi word deletions have the first half/syllable of the first word heard. When you remove anything, there is an abrupt skip in the audio making the output weird at best and unusable for any real production use case, even for personal needs.
Hey @dcreater, I’ve just pushed a big update that adds a lot of manual controls over the start/end of words as well as the ability to manually split clips and insert skips. I also deployed a larger, more accurate speech model (whisper small); you can use the model selector to try it out! https://github.com/wassgha/rescript/
Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where it pays off is not when you reach parity with the built product compared to the vendored product - it's when you can continue to extend or customize the capabilities when the original vendor can not or will not support the features you can now build
I promise you something like this will never monetarily "pay off."
Yeah, it's not so much about money, or any sort of monetary "payoff" - it's about the features that are not available that you now have the ability to extend. Believe it or not, not everything is about money!