Paluku
Local voice assistant for Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1262767
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Paluku
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Paluku (Telugu for "to speak") is a voice assistant for macOS that runs entirely on your Mac. • Dictation: hold fn, speak, release. Clean text lands in any app, with filler words and false starts removed. • Edit: select text and say "make this shorter". • Agent: hold Right ⌥ and ask. Calendar, Reminders, Files, Mail, Messages, web and any MCP server. Anything that sends or deletes asks first. Pick any open model via Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp or MLX. Free and open source (MIT).
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai voice dictation and transcription tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline voice assistant for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping local Whisper models and OS APIs is feasible, managing low-latency on-device inference, global keyboard hooks, and reliable macOS accessibility/automation permissions involves tricky native systems programming.
What it would actually take: Built in Swift/C++ leveraging whisper.cpp or Apple's CoreML speech frameworks for local STT, paired with a local quantized LLM via llama.cpp. It requires deep macOS Accessibility APIs (AXUIElement) and Event Taps to intercept keystrokes and insert text cleanly into arbitrary third-party apps. macOS permission sandboxing, background audio lifecycle management, and minimal latency optimization are the primary hurdles.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 229 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 230 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 327 days after the earliest competitor.
- TongueType · hn · 2026-05-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MinaFlow · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Dictámelo · ph · 2026-09-09 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Private voice-to-text for macOS using Apple's SpeechAnalyzer · hn · 2026-01-04 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Lispr · ph · 2026-07-09 · 240 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Speechka · ph · 2026-09-23 · 94 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- utuvo-type · github · 2026-09-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Walkie · ph · 2026-04-06 · 223 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.