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Re:Show HN: CastLoom Pro – Turn podcasts into a personal kno... by gcormier on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:57PM (#47402419)
In playing with the exact same use case, I was blown away at how good Gemini (flash 2.5 IIRC) transcoded podcasts with speaker identification and handled common "overlaps" in conversations. I can't remember what local Ollama models I played with but was not very impressed.
Re:Show HN: CastLoom Pro – Turn podcasts into a personal kno... by MikeLuLu on Monday March 16, 2026 @10:34PM (#47407879)
Yeah, Gemini is really strong at speaker separation and handling overlaps.

I’m taking a local-first approach (privacy, offline, no cost), using Faster-Whisper