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Products that do what Aloud does

Turn reading into listening

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Dictato▲93
Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac
Feb 2026 · dicta.to
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Spokenly▲178
Type 4x faster with your voice
2025
3
Wave▲310
Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice
Jun 2026 · wave.mxv.sh
4IG
I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech▲140
Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…
2024 · listenly.io
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MacWhisper▲123
High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac
2023
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Speakmac▲190
The offline dictation macOS should have had
Nov 2025
7
Yap▲140
Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
Jul 2026 · frigade.com
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Read Aloud Reader▲5
Read texts and docs aloud for free
May 2026 · readaloudreader.com
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HearIt▲81
Create your own audio books from any file for free.
2020
10
Supavoice▲206
Voice to text app for macos
2025
11
Aloud▲118
Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run
18d ago · aloud.sh
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Speechify 2.0▲122
Have your computer read to you.
2019
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Harker▲138
Turn thoughts into text at the speed of speech
2025
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Whisper Snapper for Mac▲139
Local transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, + export
Dec 2025
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WhisperWizard▲149
Speech to text with smarter transcription
2024
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Spoke▲102
Private voice-to-text for macOS. Hold a key, speak, done.
Mar 2026 · usespoke.app
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Hushbird▲3
Dictation + reading for Mac. On-device. Pay once.
Jul 2026 · hushbird.app
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PlugTalk▲88
Your Mac talks back when you plug things in
Jun 2026 · plugtalk.thenightwatcher.online
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Readr▲110
A free reader that answers your questions and reads aloud
4d ago · readr-ai.github.io
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Whisper Notes▲115
Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025
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Harker 2.0▲115
Private speech-to-text on your Mac
Apr 2026 · getharker.com
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Vocalink — your Mac, reading to you▲2
Highlight any text on your Mac and hear it read aloud
19d ago · vocalink.ai
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Speechify Reader▲83
Read smarter, not harder with this text-to-speech reader
2022
24
Readaway 2.0▲97
Let your ears do the reading.
2019

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