Walkie
Free local AI voice dictation tool
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Voice control your entire Mac. Walkie transcribes your speech instantly, strips the filler, and formats your text, then goes further. Open apps, launch URLs, and control your workflow without touching the keyboard. Fast Mode handles it all in the cloud. Local Mode keeps everything on-device. Your voice, your rules.
PH · launched Apr 6, 2026 · 223 upvotes (top 62%) · 1 view
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- SaaS
- Tech
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Could you build this?
Partial Basic voice dictation via cloud APIs is simple, but capturing dual-stream meeting audio natively without bots, running local on-device ML models, and injecting context-aware text into arbitrary apps requires low-level macOS engineering.
What it would actually take: The stack relies on Swift, ScreenCaptureKit or CoreAudio HAL taps for internal audio capture, CoreML or Whisper.cpp for local inference, and macOS Accessibility APIs for window inspection and text injection. The hard parts are capturing low-latency loopback audio without installing kernel extensions, running streaming diarization locally without throttling hardware, and handling accessibility quirks across diverse apps. This requires specialized expertise in macOS audio engineering and on-device ML optimization.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 838 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #465 of 839 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 151 days after the earliest competitor.
- WalkAITalkie · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Parroting · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- SpeechFast · ph · 2026-10-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Murmur · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Murmurly · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- WhisperWrite · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- typevoice · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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