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24 alternatives to Yap Voice Typing
Free browser extension for voice typing in any text box: press Alt+Shift+Y and talk, speech stays on your computer
Yap Voice Typing is a free browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that enables voice typing in any web text box. Users press Alt+Shift+Y to activate speech-to-text, which converts spoken words into typed text across… 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.
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Yapfree▲140Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
Jul 2026 · frigade.com · its alternatives →
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Greetings! YakGPT is a simple, frontend-only, ChatGPT UI you can use to either chat normally, or, more excitingly, use your mic + OpenAI's Whisper API to chat hands-free. Some features: * A few fun characters pre-installed * No tracking or analytics, OpenAI is the only thing it calls out to * Optimized for mobile use via hands-free mode and cross-platform compressed audio recording * Your API key and chat history are stored in browser local storage only * Open-source, you can either use the deployed version at Vercel, or run it locally Planned features: * Integrate Eleven Labs & other TTS…
2023 · yakgpt.vercel.app · 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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WhisperUI▲120Most affordable text-to-speech and speech-to-text service
2024 · whisperui.com · its alternatives →
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SpeakoFlow▲95Free, open-source voice dictation and AI assistant, offline
Aug 2026 · speakoflow.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm a longtime web dev, but this is my first macOS app. Feedback is very welcome <3 I built TongueType because every dictation app I tried failed at least one of three things: it sent my audio to someone's cloud, it charged me monthly fee, or it felt clunky or enterprisy. The cloud thing kills it for anything sensitive. The subscription thing is insulting for what amounts to "Whisper + a hotkey." TongueType runs Whisper locally on Apple Silicon via CoreML. It's built to feel like a second keyboard: tap the hotkey, talk, let go, words appear. It sits in the menu bar (no dock icon, no…
May 2026 · tonguetype.app · its alternatives →
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Whisper Notes▲115Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025 · whispernotes.app · its alternatives →
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Yap-It▲67Turn messy voice notes into ready-to-publish content.
Mar 2026 · yap-it.com · its alternatives →
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I wanted a voice-to-text app but didn't trust any of the proprietary ones with my privacy. So I decided to see if I could vibe code it with 0 macOS app & Swift experience. It uses a local binary of whisper.cpp (a fast implementation of OpenAI's Whisper voice-to-text model in C++). Github: https://github.com/richardwu/openwhisper I also decided to take this as an opportunity to compare 3 agentic coding harnesses: Cursor w/ Opus 4.6: - Best one-shot UI by far - Didn't get permissioning correct - Had issues making the "Cancel recording" hotkey being turned on all the…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Yapping▲3Voice-to-Text Chrome Extension for ChatGPT
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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type with your voice on Mac/Windows/Linux using electronjs and google chrome - fxnoob/voice-typing-for-desktop
2021 · github.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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VoicePad AI▲53Offline voice dictation for Windows, Mac, iOS & Android
Jul 2026 · voicepad.tech · its alternatives →
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Free speech to text in your browser: dictate with Whisper, no sign-up, and your audio is never uploaded.
7d ago · yapapp.cc · its alternatives →
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Hey all, I’m super happy to share the official launch of the VoiceLine Chrome Extension that my colleagues and I have been building over the last year. It allows you to record, share, and play voice notes within any browser-based application. We’re using an STT model to transcribe your notes into what we call a VoiceLine, a hybrid audio-text snippet, to address the problems of conventional voice messaging. Our vision is to introduce a new category of professional voice communication by building our service as a layer, not yet another instant messenger like Slack or MS teams. It works within…
2022 · getvoiceline.com · its alternatives →
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Voice AI that turns speech into text and smart prompts.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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