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Show HN: Rescript Rebuilds Descript's $24/mo Transcript Editing Entirely In-Browser With Whisper and WebGPU
A developer shipped Rescript, an MIT-licensed browser-based media editor where deleting words from a transcript cuts the corresponding clips from the media, built in a weekend as an alternative to Descript's subscription. Everything runs on-device: Whisper Base (~200MB) or Whisper Small (~600MB) via transformers.js with WebGPU acceleration for word-level timestamps, pyannote-segmentation-3.0 in ONNX for speaker identification, and ffmpeg.wasm for MP4/M4A export, with models cached locally after first download. It's at 161 stars and 13 forks with 63 commits, drawing 36 points and 32 comments on HN.
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