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AI · August 20, 2026

Aloud

Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run

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What it does

Feedback is easier said than written. Aloud records your voice, your screen and a live transcript together while you talk through your app – pointing at things, changing your mind. Then one press: it rewrites the transcript into what you actually meant, asks about anything that could be read two ways, pulls the screenshots you were pointing at, and turns the session into tasks for Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Whisper runs on-device – your audio and video never leave the Mac.

Record yourself talking through your Mac app. Aloud cleans up what you actually meant, grabs the screenshots, and hands your coding agents a plan they can run.

Live transcript whisper · on-device 00:00 Recording 412 MB Stop Remove ambiguity for your coding agents Vague feedback costs you context, money and the result you actually wanted. Aloud catches it early — while you're still pointing at the screen — and hands off a precise prompt, pictures included. Hit record and talk through the build like someone's sitting next to you. Voice, screen and transcript are captured together, and the recorder stays out of your video. It rewrites the transcript to what you actually meant, keeps only the calls you stood by, and suggests screenshots wherever you said “this”, “here” or “that button”. Export one self-contained file and drop it into Claude Code,…from aloud.sh

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