Vocal Slice
Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device
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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.Windows and macOS.https://vocalslice.com [email protected] to answer anything in replies, please get in touch!
HN · launched Aug 10, 2026 · 51 upvotes (top 14%) · 0 views
Niche: audio editing and processing utilities · 217 launches, 23 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 217 launches in audio editing and processing utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes Vocal Slice is an audio editor desktop wrapper using open-source Whisper running via WebGPU/Transformers.js alongside Web Audio slicing, which can be vibe-coded using modern AI web toolchains.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Descript, GLM 5.3, AssemblyAI
Concerns raised: Desync issues between audio and transcript, Limited transcription capabilities for real estate use, UX requires switching tabs to see slices, Website copy unclear about differentiation from Descript, AI-generated website design and copy quality
Feature requests: View all slices without switching tabs, Support longer clip exports beyond voice-over use case, Improved website and copy clarity on workflow benefits
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1067 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #174 of 1068 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 276 days after the earliest competitor.
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