Alison Workspace
Live subtitles & translation for any audio on your Mac
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Alison Workspace turns any audio playing on your Mac into live subtitles and real-time translations. It works system-wide — not just in a browser — so you can use it with YouTube, Safari, Chrome, video players, online courses, meetings, and more. It supports speech recognition in 100+ languages, translation into 16 target languages, and a floating subtitle window you can freely move and resize.
PH · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: real-time speech translation software · 86 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial Capturing system-wide audio on macOS requires low-level CoreAudio/AudioServer plugins or ScreenCaptureKit permissions, alongside real-time local ASR execution (Whisper.cpp/MLX) with low latency.
What it would actually take: The app requires Swift/macOS development interfacing with ScreenCaptureKit or virtual audio loopback drivers to capture arbitrary system audio. For inference, it must embed Whisper via MLX or whisper.cpp with streaming chunking to keep latency under 500ms, followed by an MT (machine translation) pipeline. The core difficulty lies in macOS audio capture permissions and streaming real-time ASR on varying Mac hardware specs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 643 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #546 of 644 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
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