WhisperType
FOSS AI Voice to Text for Android
Details
- External ID
- 1242733
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- WhisperType
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice dictation and control tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open source voice to text for android
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 266 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #147 of 267 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
- TongueType · hn · 2026-05-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Dictámelo · ph · 2026-09-09 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- PrivateTranscribe · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Local Whisper · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Whisper Dictate · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- VoxScribe · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- VoicePaste · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- VoxKey · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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