Users are debating whether Yogurt is a necessary replacement for Granola, with some viewing it as a vital cross-platform, private alternative while others argue it duplicates existing tools or lacks features like robust diarization. The strongest disagreement centers on the trade-offs between Yogurt's local-first Electron architecture and the performance or privacy implications of using cloud APIs or native frameworks.
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yapsnap
Python2026–2026
kouhxp / yapsnap
yapsnap
Transcribe any video URL or audio file into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command.
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Transcribe any video URL or audio file into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command.
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11 sourcesMRmrkn1·Oct 14, 2026
this is such a poor model, I've tried it before. Try yapsnap it has better word error rate and runs super fast on CPU. https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap/
In Show HN: How random are you?yapsnap is faster on CPU and uses a zipformer
https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap/
In We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text modelif you'd rather skip the API key and keep audio local, yapsnap transcribes any video URL or file on CPU, no GPU needed. github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap
In Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaminghttps://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap free cpu first and open source
In Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?Show HN: Yapsnap – transcribe anything with audio, no GPU, no language flag
1 points · Open discussionThe key moments feat is neat. Been working on a free opensource offline transcriber that runs fast on CPU and does diarization too
https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap
In Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-callShow HN: CPU transcription for YouTube/TikTok/X, now 3x faster and diarization
3 points · Open discussionisn't this quite similar to https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap just with a llm for summarisation?
In Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizerWorks extremely well. Command to install on Debian 13:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y ffmpeg python3-pip python3-venv && git clone https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap.git && cd yapsnap && python3 -m venv ~/yapsnap-venv && source ~/yapsnap-venv/bin/activate && pip install --upgrade pip && pip install .
On a 32GB ThinkPad X13, a 21 minute YouTube video was processed by yapsnap under 2 minutes.
Very well done!
In Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videosShow HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos
97 points · Open discussion