Say the Word
Free, open-source dictation that stays on your Mac
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Details
- External ID
- 1274764
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Say the Word
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
Description
Hold a key, speak, and paste your words where you’re typing. Say the Word is free, open-source dictation for Apple Silicon Macs. Speech recognition runs locally, with no account, subscription or telemetry. Use hands-free mode, recover missed pastes, and optionally tidy text with a local Ollama model. Works offline after a one-time model download. Requires macOS 14+.
Enrichment
- Niche
- voice dictation and autocomplete tools
- 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 app for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A native Swift macOS utility that captures global keystrokes, streams audio to whisper.cpp or Apple Speech framework, and optionally calls a local Ollama HTTP endpoint can be readily vibe-coded.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 443 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #134 of 444 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- sayso · github · 2026-10-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Pines Voice · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- VoxKey · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Witness for Mac · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- WalkAITalkie · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- WhisperWrite · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Wordmate · hn · 2026-09-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62