Dictation API by AssemblyAI
Add fast, accurate dictation with a single line API call
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Dictation API turns a spoken clip into finished text. Filler and false starts come out, and the output takes whatever shape you instruct: notes, a commit message, a reply to a customer. Built on Universal-3.5 Pro. 19 languages, under a second on short clips, $0.62/hr all in.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 64 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: speech and text conversion software · 100 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- API
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
No Building a proprietary state-of-the-art speech-to-text and formatting model (competing with Universal-3.5 Pro) across 19 languages with sub-second latency requires massive compute clusters, massive audio datasets, and expert ML researchers.
What it would actually take: Requires training large Conformer/Transformer-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models on hundreds of thousands of hours of multilingual audio, followed by fine-tuning on text-normalization and conversational editing tasks. Serving it requires specialized low-latency inference infrastructure (vLLM/Triton) on fleets of enterprise GPUs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 510 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 511 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
- Blurt · ph · 2026-09-22 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- FloatAI: ai voice to text · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- A9 Voice · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- PeakFlow · ph · 2026-11-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Utter, a local-first dictation app for Mac and iPhone · hn · 2026-03-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Voxly - Real IA Dictation · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Voice to Text : AI Minutes APP · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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