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Products that do what Local TTS - Text to Speech does

Natural text-to-speech that works fully offline

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   TTSynth.com▲237

   Convert text to speech with natural voices free online

   2024

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   TTS-API - Text-to-speech API▲111

   2012 · tts-api.com

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   OfflineTTS — Free browser-based TTS & STT that runs locally▲11

   Jul 2026 · offlinetts.com

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   Kyutai TTS▲181

   The voice for your real-time AI applications

   2025

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   VoiSistant▲80

   AI-powered speech to text, tts, & translation Mac app

   Oct 2025

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   KugelAudio▲106

   Real-time text-to-speech model you can self-host

   May 2026 · kugelaudio.com

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   Text to Speech API by Listnr▲182

   Easiest way to add text to audio functionality to your apps

   2022

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   Kokori▲101

   Transform text to speech with a powerful macOS app

   Jan 2026

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   Whisper Notes▲115

   Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS

   2025

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    Offline Text To Speech▲107

    Open source website that can speak what you type!

    2021

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    Yap▲140

    Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device

    Jul 2026 · frigade.com

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    Wave▲310

    Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice

    Jun 2026 · wave.mxv.sh

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    MacWhisper for iOS▲166

    Transcribe & summarize looooong voice memos

    2025

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    Dial8▲120

    Private, on-device speech-to-text for every app

    2024

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    Smart Voice Offline▲113

    Offline live transcription app for iOS

    2019

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    local-tts▲4

    Make your coding agent talk to you! Offline!

    13d ago · github.com

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    Juno▲167

    Free, local AI powered Voice to Text w/ live transcriptions

    Jun 2026 · usejuno.co

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    Fish Speech 1.4▲52

    Open-Source Multilingual Text-to-Speech with Voice Cloning

    2024

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    Text to Speech by FlexClip▲116

    AI-powered text-to-speech and voice converter

    2023

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    Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS▲166

    Text-to-speech API with natural language voice direction

    Apr 2026

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    Dictato▲93

    Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

    Feb 2026

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    Unmute▲144

    Let your iPhone speak for you, on the phone

    2021

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    Speech and Audio To Text – Transcribe voice messages offline▲6

    Hi HN, I’d like to share a side project I recently finished: Speech & Audio To Text, a small iOS utility to transcribe voice messages from apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Voice Memos — fully offline and without sending any data to the cloud. The motivation was personal. I often receive voice notes when I can't listen to them — during meetings, while commuting on noisy trains, or when I don’t want to disturb others. I used to rely on an app that handled this well, until it moved to a subscription model and started requiring constant internet access. I wanted something that would: - Work…

    2025 · apps.apple.com

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    Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download▲104

    Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models the OS ships and manages. So the app ships no model of its own and loads nothing before the first…

    Jul 2026 · github.com

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