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Mac dictation that catches your tone, now on iPhone too
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Free Mac dictation: hold a shortcut, talk, and clean text lands at your cursor in any app. Speech is recognized on your Mac, and a local tone check flags harsh messages before you send. New: an iPhone voice keyboard, US$4.99 once, no subscription.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The dictation workflow and keyboard UI are buildable with existing open-source speech models, but reliable on-device recognition on Mac and iPhone plus a local tone classifier and an iOS keyboard extension involve harder native and ML work.
What it would actually take: Use an open-source on-device speech model such as whisper.cpp or a Core ML port, with a native Swift app for the global hotkey and text insertion via Accessibility APIs. The iPhone keyboard needs an iOS keyboard extension and careful memory limits, and the tone check needs a small local classifier that must be trained or tuned on labeled messages. This is achievable for a strong solo native developer, but it is more than a pure vibe-coded app.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1392 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #357 of 1393 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 366 days after the earliest competitor.
- Featherweight Dictation · ph · 2026-10-07 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- ZenVoice · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- WalkAITalkie · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Shall We Talk · ph · 2026-09-18 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- typevoice · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- TAWK · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
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