Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to FirstRec
The most intuitive voice recorder ever built
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. FirstRec launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The mini voice recorder that that fits your life
2023 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Luke from ElevenLabs here. We just released Scribe Realtime v2, our new real-time Speech to Text model. We rebuilt it from the ground up around a new architecture that uses predictive transcription – it anticipates the next likely word before it’s spoken. That makes it both fast (around 150 ms latency) and highly accurate. Scribe v2 Realtime outperforms every low latency transcription model across 30 commonly used EU and Asian languages – 93.5% accuracy, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash (91.4%), GPT-4o MiniTranscribe (90.7%), and Deepgram Nova 3 (85%). It supports 90+ languages including…
2025 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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NovaVoice▲578Hey HN, Today I’d like to show what I’ve recently built with my 2 friends. We’ve called it Nova. The idea is to built all-purpose AI Voice Assistant, which is able to interact with mail, to-do apps, messengers and socials, task trackers, apps like UberEats, Notion and some other daily apps. How we decided to work on it: We’ve recently read YC Request for startups Summer25 and were inspired by the idea of AI Voice Assistant for Mail by YC partner Tyler Bosmeny. What we’ve got: We’ve gone a bit further than Assistant for mail only and connected Gmail, Todoist, Google Calendar, and…
Apr 2026 · novavoice.app · its alternatives →
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Practical, Tiny & Subtle! The 2020 EDC for Everyone!
2020 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there, I’m Brian. I've been shipping conversational models over here at Tavus for the past two years. I want to tell you about our new audio-understanding model: Sparrow-2! It’s a new category of model and a unique new approach to conversational audio. Earlier this year we launched Sparrow-1, (at the time) our SoTA turn taking model. Since our Sparrow-1 launch, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to humans talking and trying to really understand how people know when to talk, when to listen, and when to wait. I’ve also been hunting down failure modes of the current SoTA models. And while…
2024 · tavus.io · its alternatives →
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I built a voice agent from scratch that averages ~400ms end-to-end latency (phone stop → first syllable). That’s with full STT → LLM → TTS in the loop, clean barge-ins, and no precomputed responses. What moved the needle: Voice is a turn-taking problem, not a transcription problem. VAD alone fails; you need semantic end-of-turn detection. The system reduces to one loop: speaking vs listening. The two transitions - cancel instantly on barge-in, respond instantly on end-of-turn - define the experience. STT → LLM → TTS must stream. Sequential pipelines are dead on arrival for natural…
Mar 2026 · ntik.me · its alternatives →
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yapyap▲148Own your voice again. Local-first voice & meeting recorder.
Aug 2026 · yap-yap.app · its alternatives →
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The easiest voice recorder and choice of 60 millions users
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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ScreenREC▲282Free online screen recorder | no download required
Dec 2025 · screen-rec.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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My friend built this and I'm blown away with how much fun it is and the high level of polish. It renders 9 different strange attractors (Lorenz, Rössler, Aizawa, Chen, etc.) as particle systems — thousands of particles tracing chaotic paths in real time. You can rotate and zoom with touch/trackpad in 3D. The sound is the part that surprised me. It's not a soundtrack — the audio is generated from the motion itself using spatial audio, so tones shift as the attractor's behavior changes and the sound moves around you as you rotate the form. Put on headphones. The Playdate version uses the…
Jun 2026 · fieldbw.com · its alternatives →
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Sciptly▲272An iOS teleprompter app controlled by your voice
Sep 2026 · jasoneliphalet.com · its alternatives →
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Recording HI-Q MP3 audio (128 kbps) with 24 hours battery!
2020 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Practical, Tiny & Subtle - the perfect EDC
2020 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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Hyper▲93Perfect memory for every real-world conversation
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're building Hyper: an iOS voice recorder for the conversations that matter too much to pause and take notes. 1:1s with your cofounder, coffee chats, standups, whiteboard sessions. One tap to record, and when you're done you get a summary, full transcript, and tappable action items (calendar events, reminders, email drafts) — no notes needed. We built this because at our last company (a robotics startup), the most consequential decisions happened spontaneously — in hallways, over lunch, on walks. None of it got captured. Every recorder we tried was built for scheduled Zoom calls…
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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TLDR: We created a personalised Andrej Karpathy tutor that can response to questions about his Youtube videos in sub 1 second responses (voice-to-voice). We do this using a voice enabled RAG agent. See later in the post for demo link, Github Repo and blog write up. A few weeks ago we released the worlds fastest voice bot, achieving 500ms voice-to-voice response times, including a 200ms delay waiting for a user to stop speaking. After reaching the front page of HN, we thought about how we could take this a step further based on feedback we were getting from the community. Many companies were…
2024 · educationbot.cerebrium.ai · its alternatives →
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I built a beautiful teleprompter to help you sound more confident on cold calls or videos. I Recently had the experience of recording a quick demo for one of my products, and i was taking 3 second long pauses and blanking when the record button hit. I found that a lot of other teleprompters on the market were just too complex or had terrible UI/UX and didn't really allow navigation abilities. I recorded the video on my landing page using my own product and when i say this is "the most confident i have ever sounded" I mean it lol. Check it out and let me know if you guys have any…
2024 · magicscript.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Aureca▲3Record both sides of any call. Free. No sign-up.
Apr 2026 · apps.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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