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24 alternatives to Mimi, the Hipster Cat Voice Assistant

The hipster cat voice assistant for Alexa and Google 😸

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Mimi, the Hipster Cat Voice Assistant launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Skype version of the hipster cat 😽

    2016 · hipstercatbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Hipster recommendations by a hipster cat bot 😼

    2016 · facebook.com · its alternatives →

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    Your local hipster adviser

    2016 · bots.kik.com · its alternatives →

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    Find hip places worldwide

    2016 · telegram.me · its alternatives →

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    NovaVoice▲578

    Hey 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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    Life Bot▲130

    The only Alexa app you'll ever need

    2017 · asklifebot.com · its alternatives →

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    ELSA▲199

    A virtual pronunciation coach

    2016 · elsaspeak.com · its alternatives →

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    BotTalk▲282

    Create Alexa skills and Google Assistant actions with Markup

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Alexa-powered humanoid robot

    2017 · ubtrobot.com · its alternatives →

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    Build your own Alexa skills for free (no code required)!

    2018 · chatamo.com · its alternatives →

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    From now on Alexa can talk with your HipChat bots

    2016 · demo.softserveinc.com · its alternatives →

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    Voxos is an open-source desktop voice assistant that aims to put Clippy to shame while supporting new desktop workflows powered by LLMs. Tired of copy and pasting ChatGPT responses between your web browser and IDE? Does your copilot not quite do what you need it to do? I invite you to give Voxos a try and maybe even become a contributor!

    2024 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →

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    A universal bot for messaging, mobile voice, and the home

    2017 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →

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    Hound▲230

    Voice search and assistant app. A better Siri.

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Easyvoice▲210

    Make stunning voice apps with no-code development platform.

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Super-realistic celebs' voices made by AI

    2020 · parodist.ai · its alternatives →

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    Your intelligent voice assistant

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Cat or dog?

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Run Alexa apps on the command-line or Slack or anywhere!!!!

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MacYaps▲88

    Hello HN! After having fun with SlapMac a few weeks ago, I wanted to take the idea further — so I built MacYaps, a menu bar app that makes your Mac talk back with funny sounds (or serious if you wish) for real events like low battery, WiFi drops, charger status changes, high CPU, and USB connections (more triggers to come). Multiple voice packs + full custom sound support included. Short demo found here: https://macyaps.com/demo. Would genuinely appreciate any feedback. Or let me know if you'd like any other triggers in the app. Discount Code: `HACKERNEWS` to get it for $4.49…

    Apr 2026 · macyaps.com · its alternatives →

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    Speek▲75

    A voice assistant that lives in your Mac's notch

    26d ago · github.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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    Tali▲115

    Hands-free time tracking for Alexa and Google Assistant

    2018 · prhlcorp.com · its alternatives →

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