Show HN: Libretto – Simple recording and editing, an alternative to Descript

30 pointsposted 3 days ago
by michael_y
(libretto.fm)

7 Comments

zamderax

2 days ago

A marketing rule is that you cannot pick the same combination of colors as the incumbent product. Because looking at your website, I am thinking of DeScript all the time. So your website is now an ad for DeScript. This is why Pepsi cannot pick red and Xbox cannot pick Blue.

Congrats but please change the color if you want to compare yourself to DeScript.

michael_y

2 days ago

Thanks for this suggestion. We’ll keep it in mind as we refine our branding.

unstatusthequo

3 days ago

Neat alternative it seems. I do wish there was something like this that was on-device only. My guess is maybe there is, with some local LLM, but I’m just unaware of it.

xnx

3 days ago

I wrote a very basic version of this for automatically removing ads from podcasts. It works exactly as I hoped, but needs a little work yet before sharing. Very basic combination of Whisper -> Gemini -> FFMPEG. Gemini is so good and so cheap (pennies) that I haven't prioritized using local models, but that should work too.

michael_y

3 days ago

Thanks! I can see how on-device can be appealing, especially for the editor with a local model transcribing the media files to text.