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Free offline voice typing for Windows
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Free, offline voice typing for every app on Windows and Android. Your voice never leaves your device.
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PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%)
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Partial The on-device speech-to-text core is buildable with open models like Whisper.cpp, but offering it system-wide in every app requires OS-level keyboard/input-method integration on Windows and Android, which is hard to get right without platform expertise.
What it would actually take: Build an Android input method service (IME) and a Windows text-injection layer around a quantized on-device ASR model such as whisper.cpp or a distilled Whisper variant, with push-to-talk hotkeys and a settings UI. The hard parts are low-latency inference on modest hardware, reliable text insertion across apps with different input handling, and battery and privacy-safe packaging. This needs mobile and Windows systems engineers plus ML inference optimization experience.
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Attention rank: #209 of 449 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
- offline-voice-typing · github · 2026-09-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- VoxScribe · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- AitJaz · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- KisuKisu : Offline AI Voice Dictation · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- VozSay · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Local Whisper · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- SotiTalk: Voice to Text · ph · 2026-10-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- wayvoice · github · 2026-10-02 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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