Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device
vocalslice.comI make audio tools, and this one came out of the clip-pulling loop: scrub to find the right line, set the in point, set the out point, name the file, repeat.
Vocal Slice transcribes your audio, then you can simply highlight the passage you want and the waveform jumps to exactly that span. Fine-tune with the handles, export a named clip.
Windows and macOS.
https://vocalslice.com wesley@vocalslice.com
Happy to answer anything in replies, please get in touch!
If you extended this to allow assembling audio from multiple takes of the same dialogue, you’d have something very useful for audio drama post-production.
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 the same line is repeated, you can quickly seek between the matches to cut/AB multiple takes very quickly!
How do GitHub's terms and conditions like using GitHub Releases as storage for proprietary binaries? I noticed the download link points to https://github.com/terranivium/vocal-slice-releases ... and the license there https://github.com/terranivium/vocal-slice-releases/blob/mai... points at a "THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md" file that doesn't exist.
IMO, this is vibeable with tauri, with some reverse engineering of this. Worth a shot to oneshot these, fable and opus would chew through this and give a FOSS project I think in under 20$ token cost.
Why is an annual license instead of one-time only purchase? Do you plan on adding additional features in the future that would bloat this project or otherwise justify perpetual payment?
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 (um and ah removal, the ability to actually remove parts of the transcription and output audio).
How can we use this for YouTube?
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.
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, but the privacy aspect has implications in legal and NDA scenarios too.
can you make youtube poops with it?
100% it is encouraged!
so it's for selecting cuts that make it into a video for example?
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.