Speechmark
On-device meeting notes for Mac (no bot, no cloud)
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HN · launched Jun 19, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: ai meeting note takers · 192 launches, 27 in the last 7 days ▲ +59% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial Capturing system audio on macOS requires low-level CoreAudio/ScreenCaptureKit APIs, and performing performant on-device transcription with accurate speaker diarization requires specialized native systems work.
What it would actually take: Building Speechmark requires a native Swift/Objective-C macOS application utilizing ScreenCaptureKit or virtual audio loopback drivers to capture both mic and internal meeting audio streams. Local transcription and diarization necessitate integrating Whisper (e.g. whisper.cpp via Metal) and a pyannote/CoreML-based diarization model optimized for Apple Silicon neural engines. The hard parts are seamless multi-channel audio loopback capture without kernel extensions and low-latency, low-memory local diarization.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2046 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1472 of 2047 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 232 days after the earliest competitor.
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- ViiTor Memo · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
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