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WhisperType

FOSS AI Voice to Text for Android

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Keep your keyboard. WhisperType is free OSS Android dictation via Gemini Live (BYO AI Studio key)—floating mic, insert at cursor. No WhisperType sub or servers. Tradeoff: audio→Google under your key.

PH · launched Sep 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

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

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Android
  • Productivity
  • Open Source
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes It is an Android utility app providing an accessibility/floating overlay service that streams microphone audio to Gemini's WebSocket API and inserts text at the cursor.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 608 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #486 of 609 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.

  • AirTypes · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Ilo Orb · ph · 2026-10-31 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • TongueType · hn · 2026-05-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Vaulto · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • WhisperDesk AI · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Dictámelo · ph · 2026-09-09 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • MioType · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51

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