Blurt
Push-to-talk dictation on the AssemblyAI Dictation API
Details
- External ID
- 1257448
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Blurt
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 78
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9782446012401111
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, GitHub, Audio
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
Hold a key, talk, and the words land wherever you're typing. Blurt is a free, open-source Mac dictation app powered by AssemblyAI's Dictation API.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai voice dictation and transcription tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- push-to-talk dictation tool using assemblyai
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Blurt is an open-source macOS utility that binds a global shortcut to capture microphone input, streams it to the AssemblyAI Dictation API, and simulates keystrokes to type the result. This can be vibe-coded in a few days using Swift or Python.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 201 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 202 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- typevoice · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Whisper Dictate · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Dictation API by AssemblyAI · ph · 2026-09-18 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- WalkAITalkie · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- VoxKey · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Utter, a local-first dictation app for Mac and iPhone · hn · 2026-03-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Shall We Talk · ph · 2026-09-18 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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