AirTypes
Free Offline Voice to Text for Mac and Linux
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AirTypes is a desktop dictation app for macOS and Linux (Windows in development). Hold Ctrl+Shift+Space, speak, let go: the text is typed at your cursor in any app. Plain mode is free and runs Whisper offline on your own CPU. Polished mode sends the recording to AirTypes to transcribe it with a large model and clean it up with an AI, in the language you speak, paid from prepaid credit.
PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Writing
- Tech
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More like this: all 224 launches in voice dictation software →
Could you build this?
Yes Offline dictation via whisper.cpp, global hotkeys, and typing text at the cursor are buildable with existing open-source models and desktop frameworks. The main effort is per-OS accessibility permissions and hotkey plumbing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 544 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #284 of 545 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 363 days after the earliest competitor.
- VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- WhisperType · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- VoxScribe · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- SpeechFast · ph · 2026-10-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Vocs · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Local Whisper · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- WhisperWrite · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Whisper Dictate · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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