Show HN: CPU transcription for YouTube/TikTok/X, 3x faster and diarization

Category: cli-tool

Tags: transcription, cpu-only, diarization, cli-tool, offline

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 7)

yapsnap is a CLI tool that transcribes video/audio files locally on CPU using streaming Zipformer transducer models, supporting YouTube, TikTok, and other URLs with optional speaker diarization and timestamps. It is interesting for its offline, GPU-free performance and lean dependency stack.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, content creators

Repository: https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap/releases/tag/v0.1.2.1 · Python · Apache-2.0 · 246 stars

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