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We’re considering developing an open-source desktop app (Linux, Windows, Mac) for podcast creation.

It will feature a customizable workflow where every tool is a plugin, including:

🎛️ Noise reduction
🗣️ Mouth noise editing
🎚️ Simple multi-channel audio editing
🎵 Music insertion
✍️ Automatic local transcription, manual correction
📖 Chapter editing
🏷️ Metadata editing (ID3, RSS) with LLM
💾 Local publishing
🌐 Publish to host (including Castopod support, but not only)

@Castopod could be interesting if it’s a native Mac app. If it’s some kind of crossplatform framework (electron or similar) I wouldn’t even try it.

@moonglum @Castopod bad experience with crossplattform apps on macOS. Apples Aufio pipeline is sometimes a bit sensitive. Native apps can handle this usually well.

@moonglum @_holger @Castopod Electron seems kind of pointless these days if you can just make it a PWA. In general Electron apps have a tendency to be slow and heavyweight.

@Castopod Will it include an integration for recording, local and via studiolink.

@ucas It will be made customizable so that it can be added later though.

@Castopod You've got other issues first. E.G. Federation issues. A podcast in Castopod not playable from inside Mastodon. Can you do something with that?

@Castopod It should probably sit somewhere between Audacity and @ultraschall. But I'm very happy with the latter, so I wouldn't need something different.

@Optional Yes but @ultraschall relies on Reaper which is not open-source not free to use.
The idea is also a tool made specifically for podcasters.

@box_yld I love easyeffect but it serves a totally different purpose (real time audio filters).

@Castopod
"Why not".
I'd still use Reaper for production, but I may use it for transcription, chapter editing and publishing if it'll allow not to do entire process in it.

@skobkin Yes, the whole point is to be able to customize the workflow so that it answers your needs!

@Castopod Interesting to know if you have ideas on the transcription part. Will it include big tech? Then :geordi_dislike:
:geordi_like: If it doesn't use gafam
And all for multiplatform! :gnu:

@wendy Transcription will be based on Whisper, running locally. But it will be customizable.

@Castopod
Please also include an option for vosk. It is much friendlier to use, especially on lower end or obscure hardware. Or at least make the customizability/plugin development intuitive enough for a moderate Python or equivalent developers.
@wendy

@Castopod Descript completely changed audio and video editing for me. I can't imagine using anything else for talk-centric content.

It acquired SquadCast for perfect remote recordings.

Both are web apps wrapped in a browser to be native apps. I would love an open source version of it.

@Jeremiah @Castopod A Descript-esque editing experience (text-based editing) would be amazing!

I know @kdenlive is capable of doing so using their STT VOSK/Whisper integration, so it might be a starting point: youtu.be/3Qg6TS_FfXw

@Castopod This is such an exciting idea for an app!! 😁

I'd love to see music insertion work with existing copyleft/creative commons music + sound databases like Free Music Archive and Freesound.

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