Show HN: Instantly transcribe/translate any audio playing on Windows with alt+B
I've been learning Spanish for about 2.5 years, and consider myself upper intermediate.
I made a tool for when you're watching a Spanish YouTube video, Netflix show, or listening to a podcast and don't quite catch something that was said. I wanted to go ahead and post it here since I could easily expand it to work with any language, and was curious if others might find it useful.
When the tool is running, you can just pause the video and press Alt+B, and an instant transcript and translation of the last 10 seconds of audio will appear. It's useful for when native speakers are talking fast and you can't immediately parse out each individual word.
I made a short demo video below to explain what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl734JTCaIQ
I feel like this is a situation a lot of language learners run into, and there isn't a great tool for it (until now hopefully)! Would anyone be interested in helping me test it out/make it more useful? You can download it for free at briceleaf.com to try it out.
(It can't be free forever if people like it unfortunately since I have to pay for the API requests to transcribe and translate the audio. It would be awesome to get some financial support if people like it, let me know if you want to make a purchase haha)
The way I like to use it is to have YouTube, Netflix, or Spotify playing and listen until I hear something that I didn't understand. Then I'll press space to pause, and Alt+B to open the transcription. After I read it, I press enter to close the transcript and then either rewind to relisten or just keep going. I don't like clicking, so it's nice that you can use the keyboard to pull it up/close it in stride.
It only works on Windows for now, but if there's interest I'd definitely make a Mac/Linux version.
Would this be useful to any of you? Anything you'd like to see changed? I've been using it like crazy for my Money Heist rewatch to get to 100% comprehension, so I hope someone out there likes it too.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts - let me know if you want to stay in the loop as I develop it more!