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TalkCut
Edit video by editing text. Free, offline, open source.
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Edit video by editing text. Free, offline, open source.
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TalkCut is a free, open-source desktop editor. Transcribe on your own computer, then delete words to cut the video. One click removes ums, pauses and retakes. Local voice cleanup, captions, recording and 4K export with no watermark. No account, no uploads.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Rajan, and I built TalkCut.
Text-based editors make cutting ums, long pauses and flubbed retakes easy, but the ones I tried were subscriptions with transcription limits that wanted my files in the cloud. So I built a free one that runs entirely on your computer:
Edit the transcript, edit the video. Delete words and that stretch of media is cut. Non-destructive, with undo.
One-click cleanup. Preview filler words, long gaps and repeated takes, then apply them as one undoable edit.
Voice cleanup. Local noise removal and loudness normalisation, with a live Before/After switch.
Captions (SRT/VTT), titles, layers, and screen/camera/mic recording with a teleprompter.
Export MP4 up to 4K or MP3, with no watermark.
No account, no uploads. Transcription runs locally with whisper.cpp. Optional cloud AI is off by default.
It's MIT-licensed and on GitHub for Windows, macOS and Linux. Honest caveats: the installers aren't code-signed yet (you'll see a SmartScreen/Gatekeeper prompt; checksums are on the release page), and the Mac build is Intel and runs on Apple Silicon via Rosetta for now.
What I'd love from you: try it on one real recording and tell me what the cleanup missed or got wrong. Thanks for checking it out!