Dictámelo
Open-source voice typing with local and cloud models
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Dictámelo is an MIT-licensed alternative to Wispr Flow for Mac and Windows Hold a shortcut, speak and release to paste text where you are typing Download Whisper, Parakeet or Canary in the app for local transcription without an account or API key Cloud transcription is optional, using your own provider key or Dictámelo Cloud Local use is free, cloud plans and provider fees vary Optional AI cleanup sends transcript text to the cloud with consent
PH · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial While an electron/desktop wrapper for speech-to-text is straightforward, cross-platform global OS hotkeys, native audio capture, running on-device quant models (Whisper/Parakeet) efficiently, and synthetic keyboard paste injection require non-trivial systems programming.
What it would actually take: A production version requires Tauri, Electron with native Node addons, or C++/Rust to handle low-level OS accessibility APIs and global hotkey hooks on Windows and macOS. The audio pipeline needs native bindings (such as whisper.cpp or ONNX Runtime) to execute quantized ASR models with GPU/Neural Engine acceleration without noticeable latency. Text insertion requires simulated keyboard strokes via OS accessibility permissions across varying window managers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 386 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 387 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.
- betterwispr · github · 2026-10-07 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- PrivateTranscribe · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- WhisperJot · ph · 2026-10-06 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Local Whisper · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Whisper Dictate · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Dicty.io · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Wordbird: free dictation for Mac running Nvidia Parakeet locally · hn · 2026-03-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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