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Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device
Highlight a phrase and the waveform jumps straight to it — export it as a
named, ready-to-deliver clip. Your audio never leaves your device.
Every feature, free for seven days — you don't need an account or a card to start.
Also for macOS.
Also for Windows.
Load a recording, select the words you want, export the clips. It all runs locally, so transcribing still works with the wifi off.
Open a WAV, MP3, FLAC, M4A, AAC or OGG file, of any length. Vocal Slice transcribes it locally with Whisper, producing timestamps down to the individual word.
Highlight a phrase in the transcript. The waveform zooms to exactly that region, with draggable start and end handles for frame-accurate trimming.
Preview on loop, then export. A WAV source is cut byte-perfect, so what you hand over is the original audio rather than a re-encode of it, and every file is named from your own template.
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Podcasters, video editors, voiceover artists and content creators — anyone who
works through hours of recordings to find the few parts that matter.
Every slice is written from your own template — {source}_{index}_{slug}, timestamps, or whatever your project expects. A session's worth of clips comes out already matching the convention you deliver in, rather than needing an evening of renaming first.