SMRTR ProgrammingAug 9, 2026Hacker News

Open source, locally translate any video to English

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mid-voice is a local, privacy-first video dubbing tool that replaces a video's audio with an English dub using the original speaker's cloned voice. It uses speaker-aware voice cloning without diarization, dynamic audio ducking, and pitch-preserving time-stretching to handle translation length differences — all running on your own machine with no API keys or cloud uploads required.

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