LotusQ
Talk instead of type, in any app
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LotusQ is now on iPhone. Add the keyboard, tap Start and talk: your words are typed into any app, in 78 languages, or translated as you speak. 7 days of everything, then Free: 2,000 words a week. Also on Mac, Windows and Linux.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 57 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Productivity
- Custom Keyboards
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More like this: all 224 launches in voice dictation software →
Could you build this?
Partial Speech-to-text and translation can use existing APIs or models, but an iOS keyboard extension, system-wide typing into any app, and cross-platform builds require native platform expertise.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a native iOS custom keyboard extension (Swift, with its restricted sandbox and microphone permission handling), plus native or Electron clients for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Speech recognition would use a cloud ASR API or an on-device model, with streaming for low latency and a translation step. The hard parts are the iOS keyboard constraints and latency tuning, which need platform-specific engineering and testing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 497 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 498 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 356 days after the earliest competitor.
- MioType · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Talkite · ph · 2026-10-31 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Typeling · ph · 2026-10-08 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Wurd · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Tap My Words · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Red Parrot · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Parroting · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Talkpad · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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