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meerab commented on Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines   altermag.com/articles/kan... · Posted by u/trojanalert
meerab · a day ago
This is a greatly researched article, and the site is just awesome!

Kanchipuram Saree has a rich history, and I learned so much more by reading this article.

I am intrigued by the Kanchipuram saree and have dreamed about owning one. The digital ledger is a unique idea – if authenticity is established, it would be easy to invest in this as art piece.

meerab commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)    · Posted by u/david927
meerab · 3 days ago
I'm working on VideoToBe — a audio and video Transcription service with an AI chat layer. Whisper for transcription, then you can chat with your recordings instead of rewatching.

Also building simple tools for simple task such as converting audio-to-video to post on youtube and more for business users who find Premiere/Final Cut overkill for basic tasks. videotobe.com

meerab commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
meerab · 2 months ago
VideoToBe.com - Transcription & Chat for Audio/Video (board meetings, lecture notes, churches summons etc.)

Started as Pay-per-use service (upload the file and receive an email with transcript). Now we also offer subscription based service for media library, AI summaries, chat Q&A, insights/highlights.

Makes between $200 to $600 per month.

https://videotobe.com

Tips for sub growth in transcription space?

meerab commented on Cloudflare was down   cloudflare.com/... · Posted by u/mektrik
meerab · 2 months ago
It is up now!
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reneberlin · 2 months ago
Get a dog ASAP after recovering and don't look back. Mark my words and send the first pics with the puppy after you recovered elegantly.

Of course you will make it, and if not, you wont care anyway. You'll make it. I'll wait for the pics.

PS: But take that existential eye-opener serious and use it (you might later forget and drift from that in everyday-default-mode). You could print and frame this post to make it unforgetable.

meerab · 2 months ago
Please don’t get a dog just because you’re having an existential crisis. Dogs are lifelong responsibilities.
meerab commented on Ask HN: How to generate flipbook-style animations from video?    · Posted by u/meerab
wonger_ · 3 months ago
Looks like rotoscoping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping.

The closest you would get is maybe an edge detection filter. Or AI rotoscoping: https://pld.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1h9wjdv/have_any_ai_ro.... Or maybe EbSynth, as demoed by this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_KOmXyVDo

But it never looks as nice as the hand-drawn way.

meerab · 3 months ago
Thank you! It certainly looks like Rotoscoping.

And EbSynth looks amazing! I wonder what model/tech will track the moment so well!

meerab commented on Ask HN: How to boost Gemini transcription accuracy for company names?    · Posted by u/bingwu1995
meerab · 4 months ago
I use a two-pass approach - first pass with ASR (OpenAI Whisper) and second pass with an LLM. I ask users to provide context upfront and use that as the "initial_prompt" parameter in Whisper: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/963#discussion...

Gemini might have similar capabilities for custom vocabulary, though I'm not certain about their specific implementation. The two-pass ASR+LLM approach could work with Gemini's output as well.

meerab commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
meerab · 4 months ago
Working on https://videotobe.com a audio/video transcription service. VideoToBe started as a user friendly Whisper wrapper — but is evolving into a full pipeline that extracts, summarizes, and structures insights from multimedia content.
meerab commented on OpenAI DevDay 2025: Opening keynote [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=hS1Yq... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
meerab · 4 months ago
I created transcript for it for anyone wanting to read instead of listen!

https://videotobe.com/play/youtube/hS1YqcewH0c

u/meerab

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