Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux
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Details
- External ID
- 50073755
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.63
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- voice dictation software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open source speech-to-text dictation tool for desktop
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A cross-platform desktop dictation tool can be vibe-coded by wrapping local Whisper models (e.g., whisper.cpp) or cloud speech-to-text APIs inside an Electron or Tauri shell with global OS keyboard hooks.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 486 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #195 of 487 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
- BetterWispr · hn · 2026-10-11 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.80
- sayso · github · 2026-10-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Kekoso · hn · 2026-09-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- YazSes · hn · 2026-09-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- doubao-say · github · 2026-09-14 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Speechmark · hn · 2026-06-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- SayItErmano · ph · 2026-09-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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