Vocs
Talk. It types. Free, on-device dictation for your Mac
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Press ⌥Space in any app, talk, press it again, and your words are pasted where you were typing. Vocs runs Whisper on your Mac: no account, no subscription, no word cap, nothing uploaded. Free and open source.
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PH · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
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Yes Local speech-to-text is available off the shelf through whisper.cpp or Core ML ports, and the remaining work is a global hotkey, microphone capture, and pasting into the active app.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 695 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #175 of 696 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 356 days after the earliest competitor.
- VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- WhisperWrite · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Murmur · ph · 2026-10-15 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- SpeechFast · ph · 2026-10-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- PUSHTYPE · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Voxprint · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61