📼 The 4-hour VOD problem
Kick streamers are different from YouTube creators. Streams are long — 3, 5, sometimes 8 hours. IRL, just-chatting, poker, gaming. The audience that catches you live is in chat; everyone else gets a VOD they'll never scrub through. The thing nobody says out loud: most of the value buried in your VODs never escapes them.
Three things change once a stream is text:
- You can search it. "What did I say about X at hour three?" goes from impossible to a Ctrl-F.
- You can clip from it. Find the moment by reading, jump to the timestamp, pull the 30-second piece for shorts.
- You can repurpose it. A 4-hour IRL stream is a podcast episode. A poker night is three blog posts. A just-chatting session is the seed of a Twitter thread.
⚡ What Whipscribe does
Paste the Kick URL. We pull the stream with yt-dlp (which has native kick:vod, kick:live, and kick:clips extractors), run the audio through Whisper-large-v3 on our GPU, label speakers with diarization, and hand you back:
- Speaker tags — useful when you have a guest, a co-streamer, or a chat-to-voice raid.
- Word-level timestamps — click any word, the audio jumps to that exact second.
- Punctuation, capitalisation, filler-word handling.
- SRT, VTT, DOCX, plain text, or JSON export.
- An AI-chat panel on every transcript so you can ask Claude things like "summarise the poker hands I won" or "list every product I mentioned".
A 90-minute Kick VOD lands in around 3 minutes on our tier-1 pipeline. A 5-hour stream lands in 10–15.
🎯 Who this is for
- Streamers who want a shorts pipeline that doesn't depend on remembering "the funny bit happened around hour two."
- Editors cutting highlight reels — finding moments by reading is 10× faster than scrubbing.
- Sponsored-content streamers who need to prove they delivered the talking points (search the transcript, send it as receipt).
- Researchers + journalists covering Kick personalities — quote with a timestamp anchor instead of "uh, somewhere in this 6-hour video."
🔗 URL formats that work
All of these paste-and-go:
https://kick.com/<channel>/videos/<id> ← past broadcasts (VODs) https://kick.com/<channel> ← live streams while they're live https://kick.com/<channel>/clips/<id> ← individual clips
If yt-dlp can read it, Whipscribe can transcribe it. That covers Kick plus YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, TikTok, Instagram, podcast feeds, Dropbox / Google Drive direct links, and any raw MP3/MP4 URL.
Try it on the last VOD you streamed.
First hour is free. No card. Paste the URL and we'll do the rest.
Paste a Kick URL Kick · YouTube · Twitch · podcast feeds · MP3 · MP4 — anything yt-dlp recognises.