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What it does

Select any text on your Mac, press one hotkey, hear it read back in studio-grade neural voices. Instant, private, unlimited. €9.99/mo.

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  DictatoFeb 2026 · ▲93

  Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

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  Spokenly2025 · ▲178

  Type 4x faster with your voice

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  I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech2024 · listenly.io · ▲140

  Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…

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  MacWhisper2023 · ▲123

  High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac

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  YapJul 2026 · frigade.com · ▲140

  Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device

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  Read Aloud ReaderMay 2026 · readaloudreader.com · ▲5

  Read texts and docs aloud for free

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  The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude▲703

  Life & fun · 10d ago · louisabraham.github.io

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  Articos▲385

  Launch with confidence, not gut instinct

  Life & fun · 12d ago · articos.com

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  Nex▲351

  Claude Cowork for high-volume GTM workflows

  Life & fun · 4d ago · nex.ai

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  iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo▲329

  Photosynthesis fires two of your iPhone

  Life & fun · 29d ago · photosynthesis.camera

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  Creatium Coach▲320

  Your multimedia mentor that takes you from mid to great

  Life & fun · 11d ago · producthunt.creatium.info

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  SoloUno▲310

  Take control of hair pulling, nail biting & skin picking

  Life & fun · 28d ago · solouno.io

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  Brew ▲905

  Like Claude design for email marketing

  AI · May 2026 · brew.new

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  Kilo Code for VS Code▲897

  Parallel agents, diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons

  Dev tools · May 2026 · kilo.ai

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  StoreClaw▲805

  Grow your store profits with agents that know how to sell

  AI · May 2026 · storeclaw.ai

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  PollyReach▲796

  Give your agent a real number and voice to make calls.

  AI · May 2026 · pollyreach.ai

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  Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model▲776

  Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…

  Life & fun · May 2026 · github.com

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  Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian▲730

  Dev tools · May 2026 · github.com