Show HN: Yapsnap – CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram

Category: cli-tool

Tags: transcription, offline, cli-tool, python, speech-recognition, cpu-only

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Yapsnap is a CPU-only CLI tool that transcribes video and audio files from URLs or local paths into plaintext using a streaming Zipformer transducer, supporting platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and X. Its innovation lies in combining offline, no-GPU transcription with broad URL support and sentence-level timestamps, packaged as a single Python file with minimal dependencies. It's interesting for its practical, privacy-focused approach to transcription without cloud APIs.

Target audience: backend devs, content creators, journalists, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap · Python · Apache-2.0

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