VoxKey
Free, offline dictation for your Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1247623
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- VoxKey
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Hold a key, speak, and keep writing. VoxKey is a small, native Mac app that turns speech into text using local Whisper models. No account, subscription, or saved recordings. Includes custom vocabulary and English or multilingual models, including Spanish. Free and open source. Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26+. Download a model once, then dictate offline.
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice dictation and control tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline speech-to-text for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes VoxKey uses readily available open-source libraries like whisper.cpp and CoreML bindings wrapped inside a native macOS menu bar app that captures audio and simulates keystrokes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 318 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #63 of 319 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Pines Voice · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- typevoice · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- VoxClip · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Witness for Mac · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Walkie · ph · 2026-04-06 · 223 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- WalkAITalkie · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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