Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Orate
A free Hotkey text-to-speech for any highlighted text
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey friends! Brad here - long time HN user, founder, engineer (Coinbase, Soothe, Jeevz, Release, Hired, GrowthX, etc)... I have been struggling recently with too many tabs, emails, articles, etc sitting unread while I swap between Claude code sessions all day. So I decided to build Orate to help me work through the backlog by listening to it all like I would a podcast. Orate allows you to select any text on your screen and keyboard shortcut it to a listening queue where it gets processed using the latest + greatest TTS AI models, and then read back to you in a mostly-natural sounding voice.…
Jul 2026 · orate.to · its alternatives →
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Wave▲298Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice
Jun 2026 · wave.mxv.sh · its alternatives →
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Read faster, stay focused & absorb more - Create Audiobooks
2017 · speechify.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN community! I'm excited to introduce a project I've recently launched: Oration, an iOS app designed to convert PDFs into audiobooks. This idea was inspired by my experiences as an engineering student with ADHD, struggling to engage with dense academic papers. Relying on Text-to-Speech tools, despite their robotic quality, was a workaround for me and others with similar learning preferences or challenges, such as Dyslexia. Recognizing the limitations of existing tools—difficulty with complex formats, inability to skip over citations or footnotes, and inadequate handling of tables,…
2024 · oration.app · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2016 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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WhisperUI▲120Most affordable text-to-speech and speech-to-text service
2024 · whisperui.com · its alternatives →
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Speechnotes▲84Type with your voice. Speech-to-text in your browser.
2015 · speechnotes.co · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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Kokori▲101Transform text to speech with a powerful macOS app
Jan 2026 · kokori.app · its alternatives →
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Your voice is a keyboard. VoiceHotKey – Dictate Instantly!
Apr 2026 · voicehotkey.com · its alternatives →
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Voice to text with google speech recognition
2025 · speech-typing.com · its alternatives →
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