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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

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Post by wassimgr »

saulpw wrote: post #25

Have you tried using this to actually edit anything? The local transcription is trash (slow, tons of repeated words, no speaker diarization, no option to upload a transcript or use ElevenLabs). I made a few edits to a sample episode I have, clicked on the upper left for a menu, it went to the front page and...I guess it lost the transcription and the edits with no way to get it back. Cool idea but it seems unusable a…

Just pushed a PR that fixes hallucinations and lets it handle longer form video + the option to select a larger (~600mb) model that has much better transcription accuracy.

Please give it another try! https://github.com/wassgha/rescript/issues/13#issuecomment-5...

Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

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Post by wassimgr »

saulpw wrote: post #25

Have you tried using this to actually edit anything? The local transcription is trash (slow, tons of repeated words, no speaker diarization, no option to upload a transcript or use ElevenLabs). I made a few edits to a sample episode I have, clicked on the upper left for a menu, it went to the front page and...I guess it lost the transcription and the edits with no way to get it back. Cool idea but it seems unusable a…

Also just added the ability to save/restore projects! :)

Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

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Post by bl4kers »

darepublic wrote: post #13
saulpw wrote: post #10

I hate Descript, not because of the cost but because of their dark patterns. (I learned recently that their CEO is the former CEO of Groupon, which explains a lot.) So I'd love something like this. But I need to edit an audio-only podcast. Is there a reason that it only accepts video files?

I think you can use ffmpeg to turn your audio into a video file

Yes, you can. Just pass in an image

Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

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Post by stevenicr »

sunnybeetroot wrote: post #12

Posts like these now feel the equivalent of “I didn’t want to order Indian takeaway so I hired a chef to make me butter chicken”

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.

Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

stevenicr wrote: post #36
sunnybeetroot wrote: post #12

Posts like these now feel the equivalent of “I didn’t want to order Indian takeaway so I hired a chef to make me butter chicken”

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

Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

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Post by stevenicr »

dgellow wrote: post #19

I will never understand that thinking. You didn’t like that a service you need asks to be paid, so you paid an LLM to create a free competitor that you now advertise online. Do you not see the race to the bottom you’re contributing to? $24 doesn’t sound outrageous at all. Such a weird way to frame your project

It's not $24 - it's $24 / month.

And last time I used it, when I went to export in high resolution (don't recall if it was 1080 or 4k) - it refused to export in the resolution that I uploaded unless I paid for an upgrade.

I can't stand monthly rent forever, yet a time many moons ago, descript's method was novel enough to give it a whirl.

It's no longer novel, just like many other projects.

Re: Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

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Post by dcreater »

Looks 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.
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