Speaklively
Voice typing for Mac that shows every word as you talk
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Speaklively is free voice-to-text for Mac. Hold fn and talk, and every word appears in a small panel while you're still speaking, so you're never guessing what it heard. Let go, and the text lands wherever your cursor is, in any app: email, Slack, notes, ChatGPT, Claude. Your voice never leaves your Mac. It works offline and needs no account. No word limit. Optional AI cleanup when you want it. The fastest writer in the room doesn't type. They talk.
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 4%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Audio
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More like this: all 224 launches in voice dictation software →
Could you build this?
Yes Voice-to-text for Mac that shows live transcription and inserts text at the cursor is a menu-bar app built on existing speech models (Apple Speech or Whisper variants). The main work is system integration and latency tuning, which a capable developer can handle with AI assistance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1035 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #137 of 1036 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
- WhisperWrite · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- speakeasy. · ph · 2026-10-01 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- SpeechFast · ph · 2026-10-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- bolipi · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- hushtype · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Babblekey · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Murmurly · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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