Simple Terminal Voice Recorder
Details
- External ID
- 47472027
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
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- Website domain
- —
- Launched
- March 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
A lightweight, terminal-based voice recorder written in Python with pause/resume, live preview, trash/recycle bin, quality presets and basic file management — no GUI, no bloat. Just a fun project. Nothing serious.https://github.com/chistev/voice-recorder
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice dictation and control tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal voice recording utility
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A CLI voice recorder using standard Python libraries (such as sounddevice/PyAudio and curses/rich) is a textbook beginner-to-intermediate scripting project easily built with AI.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 176 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #171 of 177 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 134 days after the earliest competitor.
- Terminal Phone · hn · 2026-02-26 · 322 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Voice Recorder: Tapedeck · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Juno · ph · 2026-06-18 · 165 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Transcribe Your Voice in Terminal Locally · hn · 2025-11-21 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I made a little voice note recorder · hn · 2026-03-03 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Chirp · hn · 2025-11-14 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Voice Memo · ph · 2026-09-30 · 65 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Screen Recorder · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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