sayso
Dictation that runs on your own computer. Press a key, speak, and the text lands in the app you are using. Free and open source, for Mac now.
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Details
- External ID
- 1402058539
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- sayso
- Website domain
- justsayso.app
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.021863612701717855
- Tags
- apple-silicon, dictation, gpui, local-first, macos, open-source, parakeet, privacy, rust, speech-to-text, transcription, voice-to-text, voice-typing, whisper, whisperkit
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- AI voice dictation and autocomplete
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local speech-to-text dictation for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and local Whisper wrapper can be vibe-coded, but real-time low-latency native cross-platform OS audio interception, global hotkeys, and simulated keystroke injection require system-level native development.
What it would actually take: A reliable desktop app requires Rust or C++ (via Tauri or Electron native addons) integrating local ML inference (Whisper.cpp / ONNX Runtime with Metal/CUDA acceleration), low-latency audio capture via PortAudio or CoreAudio, and native OS accessibility APIs (such as macOS CGEvent / Accessibility API, Windows SendInput, Linux uinput/X11/Wayland protocols) to inject text into focused applications reliably without triggering anti-cheat or OS permission blocks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 279 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #279 of 280 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- VoxKey · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- typevoice · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Blurt · ph · 2026-09-22 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Talkwondo · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- VoxScribe · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WinWhispr, dictation for Windows · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Whisper Dictate · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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