Show HN: Vocal Slice β Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device
47 points - 08/10/2026
I 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.
How is this different from descript? It seems like descript, but you took out the video functionality?
tene80itoday at 7:40 AM
If you extended this to allow assembling audio from multiple takes of the same dialogue, youβd have something very useful for audio drama post-production.
x______________today at 6:22 AM
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?
dipanshuhappytoday at 7:54 AM
Is it open source ? Curious if there is a breakdown on how it works. Looks really cool
kunaaldhawan1today at 8:28 AM
Cool idea. But I wonder if the text to speech is 100% accurate when that step takes place
terranivium08/10/2026
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.
jhvkjhktoday at 8:43 AM
Is it a whisper wrapper? Or does it use custom-trained models?
pulkastoday at 8:45 AM
Iβd like to understand how this works.
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utilitydeltalast Tuesday at 11:19 AM
so it's for selecting cuts that make it into a video for example?