Doubao Say
Voice input for Linux, right where you type
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Doubao Say is an open-source GTK4 voice input app for Linux. Start dictation with a shortcut, watch the transcript appear in an overlay, and insert the final text into your current app. It supports Hyprland / Wayland and native X11, with an optional Omarchy plugin. Choose Doubao web sign-in, the official Volcengine Seed ASR 2.0 API, or Deepgram Nova-3 for US English. Recognition uses cloud services; API options require your own key. Doubao Say is an unofficial client.
PH · launched Sep 28, 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
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Linux
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping speech-to-text APIs is simple, building a native GTK4 application with deep Wayland/Hyprland and X11 compositor integration (virtual keyboard input, global hotkeys, window overlay injection) requires specialized Linux desktop development.
What it would actually take: A production version requires Rust/C/Python bindings for GTK4/libadwaita and Wayland protocols (wlr-foreign-toplevel, zwp_virtual_keyboard_v1) along with X11 fallback via XTest. Global shortcut handling across disparate Wayland compositors (Hyprland, GNOME) requires custom IPC or desktop portal integrations, combined with streaming audio capture and low-latency transcription backends.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 263 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #213 of 264 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- doubao-say · github · 2026-09-14 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- SayItErmano · ph · 2026-09-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Saylo — Local voice dictation · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Sayso · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- sayso · github · 2026-10-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Saidso · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Dictámelo · ph · 2026-09-09 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Talkey · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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