SpeechFast
Local Whisper for Mac
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Hold fn and talk. SpeechFast types clean text at your cursor, in any app. Everything runs on your Mac. The speech model is downloaded once; after that, no audio and no text ever leaves your machine. It works offline, on a plane, behind a locked-down corporate network. Dictate in Mail, Slack, Notion, your code editor, anywhere you can type Filler words and false starts cleaned up with Apple Intelligence Your own vocabulary for names and jargon History of your recent dictations, stored locally
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PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 78 upvotes (top 2%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
- Audio
Similar launches
See all 599 similar launches →Could you build this?
Yes It is a native Mac menu bar/utility app wrapping whisper.cpp or WhisperKit with global hotkey detection and system accessibility text-injection APIs, easily vibe-coded in Swift.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 599 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 600 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
- bolipi · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- WhisperWrite · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- typevoice · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Local Whisper · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- WalkAITalkie · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- NarraFlow · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Open Flow · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
More details
- External ID
- 1282872
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- SpeechFast
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.98
- All tags
- Productivity, Menu Bar Apps, Audio
- AI summary
- local speech transcription for mac
- Manually corrected
- No