ClipsAI vs Deepgram Nova-3
Both in the video & clipping category. Side-by-side — pick the one that fits your stack tonight.
The open-source blueprint for podcast clipping. Study it, steal the patterns.
- rating
- 3★
- tested
- —
- cost
- free
- install
- needs-wiring
- stars
- 474
- updated
- 2y ago
You want a ready-to-ship tool. ClipsAI is a reference design at this point, not active software.
The speech-to-text that actually gets word-level timestamps right.
- rating
- 5★
- tested
- ✓ loya-tested
- cost
- paid
- install
- needs-wiring
- stars
- 0
- updated
- 4d ago
You only transcribe short voice notes — use free Whisper locally.
why it matters · ClipsAI
ClipsAI was the first proper open-source take on 'long podcast in, viral shorts out.' Python library that finds natural topic boundaries + tracks the active speaker to cut clips that actually make sense standalone. Hasn't been updated in over a year, so treat this as a reference codebase, not a production install. The topic-boundary + speaker-detection approach it uses is still how OpusClip works under the hood. Read the repo, steal the pattern, build your own pipeline.
why it matters · Deepgram Nova-3
Nova-3 is the transcription engine behind every podcast clipper that ships. You upload audio, get back text with per-word timestamps, speaker labels, and punctuation — the three things you need to cut a clip on a clean sentence boundary instead of mid-word. Costs about 26 cents an hour of audio. Free \$200 credit when you sign up, which gets you through your first 700+ hours before you pay anything. Way more accurate than Whisper on real podcast audio.