Cadenza
Open-source voice typing that runs on your Mac
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Details
- External ID
- 1275663
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cadenza
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
Description
Hold a shortcut, speak, and release to type at your cursor. Cadenza runs speech recognition locally on macOS, with no account or telemetry. Free and MIT licensed, with custom shortcuts, vocabulary, and optional text polish. Early preview.
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 open-source voice typing app for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This wraps Apple's built-in Speech framework or local whisper.cpp into a native macOS menu bar app that sends keystrokes using macOS Accessibility APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 371 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #233 of 372 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Private voice-to-text for macOS using Apple's SpeechAnalyzer · hn · 2026-01-04 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Zero typing · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- speakeasy. · ph · 2026-10-01 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- nchova · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- VoxKey · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Fluere · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53