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akxtoday at 9:59 AM1 replyview on HN

There are lots of AI-sloppy tells, starting from, let's see:

* the web site's layout (eyebrows, glows, em-dashes, middots, that certain breathless tone in the pricing box) (edit: see the source for https://vocalslice.com too)

* the changelog listing, eg. the fact that you can search by language code as a headline feature

* in the app, things like "Click here to choose an audio file to transcribe – swap it any time" are Claude-like copy; I'd be surprised if you _couldn't_ change the audio file at any time?

* looking at https://vocalslice.com/demo.webp, another claudeism is the glowy status indicator blob, it really likes to add that by default.

If OP gets a business going with this, more power to them and all the best, but it really is something that's buildable pretty easily with transformers.js and models like onnx-community/whisper-small_timestamped. (Speaking of which, I hope OP is hosting the models somewhere themselves and not trusting, say, Hugging Face with the continuity of their business.)


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terraniviumtoday at 10:51 AM

the truly important thing from discussion with users is the actual workflow optimisation that the app provides, but i totally agree some of the copy on the website could use improvement and the comments on this show hn have made it clear that i'm not communicating things as well as i could

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