Umless, open-source on-device dictation that writes what you meant
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HN · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 66%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Open-source on-device ASR models and local LLMs exist, so the transcription and cleanup pipeline can be assembled with AI help. Reliable cross-platform system integration (global hotkeys, text insertion, low latency) is harder.
What it would actually take: Use a desktop shell (Tauri or Electron) around a local speech model such as whisper.cpp or a similar on-device model, plus a small local LLM or rules engine for cleanup and intent rewriting. The difficult parts are latency and model size tuning on consumer hardware, and OS-specific code for audio capture, global shortcuts, and inserting text into arbitrary apps across Windows, macOS, and Linux. This needs someone comfortable with native desktop development and performance profiling.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1045 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #683 of 1046 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 376 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kekoso · hn · 2026-09-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- BetterWispr · hn · 2026-10-11 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux · hn · 2026-10-13 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Qwen Scribe · hn · 2026-07-29 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Speechmark · hn · 2026-06-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- YazSes · hn · 2026-09-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Jexxa: High Speed on Device Dictation · hn · 2026-09-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Keen Bean · hn · 2026-09-06 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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