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Wavee

Wave your voice & get text at your cursor 6x faster

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Wavee is a calm, local-first dictation layer for Windows and macOS. Hold a hotkey, speak naturally, and Wavee turns your voice into polished text right where your cursor is 6x faster.

PH · launched Sep 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

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  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Developer Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?

Partial While wrapping local Whisper models is accessible, creating a low-latency, cross-platform OS background service that manages system-wide audio hooks, global hotkeys, accessibility APIs, and synthetic keystroke injection across macOS and Windows requires native systems programming.

What it would actually take: A real build requires low-level systems programming in Rust, C++, or Swift/Objective-C/C# using OS-level accessibility and input APIs (CoreGraphics/AXUIElement on macOS, Win32 SendInput/UI Automation on Windows). It must bundle an optimized local speech-to-text inference engine (whisper.cpp or ONNX Runtime) with strict memory/CPU caps and sub-second latency.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 642 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #539 of 643 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Wave · ph · 2026-06-07 · 310 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • Talkey · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • VoiceOS · ph · 2026-04-03 · 287 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Whisper Dictate · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Tagara · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Waver AI · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • SpeechFast · ph · 2026-10-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Talkpad · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49

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