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Building Capite: a self-hosted AI video caption generator with faster-whisper and FFmpeg

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Short-form video — TikTok, Reels, Shorts — runs on word-animated captions now. Getting them usually means Submagic, CapCut Pro, or OpusClip: a monthly subscription, a cap on minutes, and your footage sitting on someone else's server before you've even published it. I built Capite to avoid that trad…

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  1. 2026-09-21 07:21 · DEV Community — AI
    Building Capite: a self-hosted AI video caption generator with faster-whisper and FFmpeg

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