Lowspeak
AI speech-to-text in every Mac app, online or offline
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Hold fn, talk, let go: your words appear wherever the cursor is, in any Mac app. Online with Groq (free on its free plan) or OpenAI, offline with Whisper and NVIDIA Parakeet on your Mac. 100% Rust on native AppKit: 17 MB, about 45 MB of memory, text about 0.4 s after you let go. Vocabulary, cleanup, per-app formatting, hands-free mode, 35 languages. Open source, no account, no telemetry.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Open Source
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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More like this: all 224 launches in voice dictation software →
Could you build this?
Partial The cloud-API version of push-to-talk dictation is vibe-codeable, but the native macOS integration and on-device Whisper/Parakeet inference with low latency and memory use require systems-level expertise.
What it would actually take: The app needs a native macOS shell with global hotkey capture, Accessibility or input-event injection to type into any app, and microphone handling. Offline inference requires converting and running Whisper or Parakeet models efficiently on Apple silicon (e.g., Core ML or Metal). Achieving the claimed footprint and latency needs low-level performance tuning and signing or notarization work.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 607 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #164 of 608 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 373 days after the earliest competitor.
- VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- SpeechFast · ph · 2026-10-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- HoldTalk · ph · 2026-11-03 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Say the Word · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- WhisperWrite · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Murmur · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Murmur · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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