SpeechOS
Wispr Flow-inspired voice input for any web app
Details
- External ID
- 46707409
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- SpeechOS
- Website domain
- speechos.ai
- Launched
- Jan. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5586297760210803
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi Hacker News! I’m David Huie. I’m launching SpeechOS, a drop-in voice input SDK for web apps.I was inspired by Wispr Flow and wanted the same workflow inside business apps (CRMs, docs, forms, support tools), not just a standalone tool. It’s saved me a massive amount of time vs typing.How it works: add a couple lines of JS plus an API key, and SpeechOS shows a small mic widget on every text field.Live demo: https://www.speechos.ai/(Click a text box and the mic widget appears; click the gear icon to see settings, custom vocabulary, and snippet configuration.)Users can:- Dictate: speak naturally, real-time voice to polished text (punctuation, no filler/typos)- Edit: say “make it shorter”, “fix grammar”, “translate...”- Command: define Siri-style app actions (for example, “submit form”, “mark complete”), and we match intent to your commandsIt also supports:- Custom vocabulary: domain terms and names (product names, acronyms, jargon) so they transcribe correctly- Text snippets: saved reusable blocks of text you can insert by voice (for example, “my signature”, “disclaimer”, “my address”)Why: text entry speed and accuracy still matter for productivity tools. A large-scale text entry dataset with 37,370 participants showed an average typing speed of 36.2 WPM and ~2.3% uncorrected errors. In speech research, speech recognition was about 3× faster than keyboard input and had ~20.4% lower error rate for English text entry. (https://hci.stanford.edu/research/speech/)SpeechOS is currently in beta and free for now. Sign up at https://app.speechos.ai/accounts/signup/ and enter this HN-only beta code: HN-JFc74cVC (please don’t share outside HN).Links:SDK repo: https://github.com/speechos-org/speechos-clientDemo: https://www.speechos.ai/Signup (code: HN-JFc74cVC): https://app.speechos.ai/accounts/signup/I’d love feedback on:1) Where this is most valuable in your stack (notes? docs? CRM entry? support macros?)2) What you’d want from voice commands/snippets configuration3) What would make you comfortable shipping this (privacy/security, latency, pricing)If you’re building anything in voice AI/dictation, I’d be happy to swap notes ([email protected]).
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice AI agents and infrastructure
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- voice input for web apps
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an embedded client-side SDK that captures microphone audio via the Web Audio API, streams it to a speech-to-text API (e.g., Whisper), and inserts the transcribed text into active input fields.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Wispr Flow
Concerns raised: Missing privacy policy and legal jurisdiction information, Blank/placeholder Terms of Service, Data processing obligations and compliance unclear, Processing users' voice and private data without proper legal framework
Competitors
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Attention rank: #142 of 291 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 79 days after the earliest competitor.
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