Dicty.io
Offline voice dictation & docs librarian for developers
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Dicty is an offline-first desktop voice assistant built specifically for software engineers: Sub-400ms Local Dictation: Runs Whisper models directly on Apple Silicon Metal and Windows NVIDIA/CPU. Zero audio ever leaves your computer. Architectural Librarian: Connects your voice notes with your Git branch, diffs, and commits to maintain persistent documentation in Obsidian, Notion, or Confluence. Offline Neural Text-to-Voice: High-fidelity read-aloud with Kokoro & Silero.
PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 2 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Partial Delivering sub-400ms local dictation and an offline desktop assistant requires packaging native C++ inference engines (e.g., whisper.cpp) with Apple Metal and CUDA/TensorRT acceleration inside a desktop application wrapper.
What it would actually take: A production version requires an Electron or Tauri shell binding to native C/C++ libraries (whisper.cpp) compiled specifically for Apple Silicon (Metal) and Windows (CUDA/DirectML), alongside audio capture streaming pipelines (PortAudio) and local vector embeddings (e.g., sqlite-vec with ONNX) for Git repo parsing. Low-latency streaming VAD (voice activity detection) and cross-platform native compilation require specialized systems programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 294 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #109 of 295 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dictámelo · ph · 2026-09-09 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Murmur · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Pines Voice · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Murmurly · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Whisper Dictate · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- VoxScribe · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- WhisperJot · ph · 2026-10-06 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- AirTypes · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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