AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to toby
Live speech translation on any video call with little delay
Toby is a desktop application that provides live speech translation during video calls across any platform. Users can speak in other languages with minimal delay without needing special setup beyond downloading the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. toby launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Pinch▲535Hey HN! I’m Christian, daily lurker and some might remember our original launch post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42935355). Today we're launching Pinch for Mac, which we believe is a step-change improvement in real-time AI translation. Our vision is to make cross-lingual conversations feel as natural as regular conversations. TL:DR During an online meeting, the app instantly transcribes and translates all audio you hear, and allows you to decide when you translate your voice and when you don't. It's invisible to others (like Granola), and works everywhere without any…
2025 · startpinch.com · its alternatives →
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Aqua Voice▲579Incredibly fast voice input for Mac and Windows
2025 · aquavoice.com · its alternatives →
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Translate and localize your video with just one click
2023 · akool.com · its alternatives →
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Context-aware voice keyboard for any app
2024 · talktastic.com · its alternatives →
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Juno▲167Juno is the local voice layer for Mac with live transcription, Voice Actions, Voice Commands, private offline dictation after setup, and no subscription or paid tier.
Jun 2026 · usejuno.co · its alternatives →
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Teameet▲273Video calls with interpretation in the speaker‘s own voice
2024 · teameet.cc · its alternatives →
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A few years ago, right after high school, I decided to try to make a simultaneous translation app for Android as a side project, it took longer than expected (about 2 years) and I had to make a lot of compromises (I had to use Google's API and therefore make users use a developer key because at the time there were no free solutions for speech recognition and translation that had good quality). At the end of university, I decided to pick it up again and finally, using OpenAi's Whisper for speech recognition and Meta's NLLB for translation (with both running locally on the phone), I managed to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A free, open source, Descript alternative. Runs on-device.
Aug 2026 · getrescript.com · its alternatives →
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Heynds▲125Hey everyone, I'm excited to share Heynds, a new desktop app for macOS and Windows (Linux coming soon!) that combines voice dictation with a powerful AI writing assistant to significantly boost your productivity. First and foremost, I know that many solutions like this already exist, but I needed my own, something faster than all the others, that both integrates speech-to-text and a writing assistant in an all-in-one app. The core idea is to let you work much faster by: * Voice-to-Text: Speak naturally, and Heynds transcribes your words into perfectly formatted text in real-time. Think of it…
2025 · heynds.com · its alternatives →
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Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Talk like anime girl in realtime on your next call
Sep 2026 · voicechanger.live · 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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The Banana App▲133Speak human - Where every word finds its way home
Mar 2026 · thebanana.app · its alternatives →
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