wayvoice
Offline voice typing for Linux/Wayland. Press a hotkey, speak, and text appears in the active application. Local Whisper • GTK/libadwaita • No cloud required.
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Details
- External ID
- 1402291327
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- yovoice
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 55
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7618427902134305
- Tags
- accessibility, ai, dictation, faster-whisper, gnome, gtk4, libadwaita, linux, offline, offline-ai, offline-first, privacy, speech-to-text, voice-input, wayland, whisper
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- local voice dictation and transcription tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- offline speech-to-text typing tool for linux
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It binds local Whisper (via whisper.cpp or similar) to Linux audio input and uses standard Wayland virtual keyboard protocols (or wtype/ydotool) wrapped in a GTK/libadwaita interface.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 178 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #47 of 179 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
- Local Whisper · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- VoxScribe · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- SayItErmano · ph · 2026-09-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- WhisperType · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- PrivateTranscribe · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Whisper Dictate · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Transcribe Your Voice in Terminal Locally · hn · 2025-11-21 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- offline-voice-typing · github · 2026-09-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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