Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape
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#23Peak rank
3Days on list
–Score · 7d
Oct 29, 2026First seen
On Hacker News
Hi HN, I'm Ruud, co-founder of Lont. We turn company emails into personalized videos. Video captions cost us manual work twice: fixing misheard words, then fixing layout, like lines ending on “the”. Overtone uses multiple models to listen to the audio: gpt-transcribe, Azure STT, and Elevenlabs Scribe. When they return conflicting results, Overtone sends small clips to the models again, and then lets an LLM decide what was actually said. The LLM is like a human doing a sanity check on the…
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- rvanderlinden
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- Oct 29, 2026
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Trending history
Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 20 checks on 3 different days, across 2 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN · this week). Its best position was #23 of 30, reached on Oct 29, 23:07 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 5, 16:50 UTC.
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| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #23 | 2 | 16 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN · this week | #29 | 1 | 4 |
From the discussion
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The worst thing is when captions try to understand names. For example my name is Simion, and people often call me "Simi" which captions ofter miss and take it as "see me" or some kind of variation like this. Do you feed any kind of names in the tie break?
I have no idea what’s going on, but modern subtitles are suddenly TRASH. All kinds of misheard words, it really feels like they removed all human oversight, or reduced it so significantly it’s just impossible to actually read it all for whatever crew works on this. I only glanced through capabilities, so apologies if…
This is a great idea. I recently had this exact problem when captioning a demo video in portrait mode. And to my surprise there was no easy way to automatically fit the captions on the screen. Will definitely this tool a try.
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Is Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 5, 16:50 UTC, after 3 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape reached?
#23 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 29, 23:07 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 3 days (20 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
45 points and 14 comments; submitted by rvanderlinden on Oct 29, 2026.