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24 alternatives to Speech.is interop for Namecoin

I'm a core-contributor to Namecoin and the lead developer for Speech.is, an interoperability layer for Namecoin that I have been working on for the past year. While the main goal of the Speech.is website is to provide a scalable interop system that doesn't involve proxies or mirroring content, I was able to backport some of the censorship resistant properties of the Namecoin .bit TLD to regular websites. Speech.is reimplements DNS lookups within the browser itself. When coupled with emerging WebRTC P2P networks we are able to push all processing to the client side, shielding us from legal…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Speech.is interop for Namecoin launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Fast voice-to-text on 92 languages

    2023 · lingvanex.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Braden here, creator of Whispering, an open-source speech-to-text app. I really like dictation. For years, I relied on transcription tools that were almost good, but they were all closed-source. Even a lot of them that claimed to be “local” or “on-device” were still black boxes that left me wondering where my audio really went. So I built Whispering. It’s open-source, local-first, and most importantly, transparent with your data. Your data is stored locally on your device, and your audio goes directly from your machine to a local provider (Whisper C++, Speaches, etc.) or your chosen…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Inworld TTSfree tier, from $25/mo▲318

    Hey HN, this is Igor, one of the engineers behind Inworld Runtime, which we're releasing today in public preview. We built it to solve the common problem we and our customers had: engineers spend more time on AI ops and plumbing than on actual feature development. This was often due to the challenge of using Python for I/O-bound, high-concurrency workloads and complexity maintaining pipelines with streams that use always-changing ML models. Our solution is a high-performance runtime written in C++ with the core idea of defining AI logic as graphs. For instance, a basic voice-to-voice…

    2025 · inworld.ai · its alternatives →

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    Database of 700K+ available and brandable one-word domains

    2020 · oneword.domains · its alternatives →

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    A searchable glossary of web3/nft/crypto terms.

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Realtime, open-source backend for JavaScript apps

    2016 · sequence.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Decentralized whitepages for bitcoin

    2014 · explorer.hiro.so · its alternatives →

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    Send, swap & bridge crypto with plain ol' English

    2023 · talkblock.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Last year the project I launched here got a lot of good feedback on creating speech to speech AI on the ESP32. Recently I revamped the whole stack, iterated on that feedback and made our project fully open-source—all of the client, hardware, firmware code. This Github repo turns an ESP32-S3 into a realtime AI speech companion using the OpenAI Realtime API, Arduino WebSockets, Deno Edge Functions, and a full-stack web interface. You can talk to your own custom AI character, and it responds instantly. I couldn't find a resource that helped set up a reliable, secure websocket (WSS) AI…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    :speech_balloon: An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System - GitHub - iceychris/LibreASR: :speech_balloon: An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Daily crypto digest with next 100x projects inside

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Bitcoin for everything

    2014 · namecoin.org · its alternatives →

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    Stay safe in crypto with unbiased reviews from the community

    2024 · isitsafe.io · its alternatives →

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    Sharing economy built on blockchain

    2018 · originprotocol.com · its alternatives →

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    Get fresh and unique crypto-news from around the world

    2023 · t.me · its alternatives →

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    Mobile ZK Puzzle Game with NFT rewards. Contribute to nalinbhardwaj/wordlines development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Prove that you said things before anyone else

    Jun 2026 · yousaidthat.org · its alternatives →

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    Post permanent comments, reviews or messages on any website

    2023 · postschain.com · its alternatives →

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    Namefi▲12

    Hey hacker friends, we are building a domain platform that is "modern". Offering modern features we think a domain platform should provide such as ownership with NFT (or if you dislike NFT as a term, cryptography and interoperability), AI for brand generation etc. We love to get your feedback

    2024 · namefi.io · its alternatives →

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    GDPR-compliant multilingual speech-to-text API with industry-specific models. EU-hosted, secure, SDKs and free API key.

    2020 · speechtext.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hacker News! I’m David Huie. I’m launching SpeechOS, a drop-in voice input SDK for web apps. I was inspired by Wispr Flow and wanted the same workflow inside business apps (CRMs, docs, forms, support tools), not just a standalone tool. It’s saved me a massive amount of time vs typing. How it works: add a couple lines of JS plus an API key, and SpeechOS shows a small mic widget on every text field. Live demo: https://www.speechos.ai/ (Click a text box and the mic widget appears; click the gear icon to see settings, custom vocabulary, and snippet configuration.) Users can: -…

    Jan 2026 · speechos.ai · its alternatives →

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    Understand market emotions in real-time with AI analysis

    2024 · voicelark.com · its alternatives →

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