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Products that do what VoxChimp does
Private voice-to-text for Mac, in any app.
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Real-time speech-to-text with speaker diarization
Feb 2026 · mistral.ai
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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
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Sep 2025 · github.com
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