SpeechOS – Wispr Flow-inspired voice input for any web app
Hi Hacker News! I’m David Huie. I’m launching SpeechOS, a drop-in voice input SDK for web apps. I was inspired by Wispr Flow and wanted the same workflow inside business apps (CRMs, docs, forms, support tools), not just a standalone tool. It’s saved me a massive amount of time vs typing. How it works: add a couple lines of JS plus an API key, and SpeechOS shows a small mic widget on every text field. Live demo: https://www.speechos.ai/ (Click a text box and the mic widget appears; click the gear icon to see settings, custom vocabulary, and snippet configuration.) Users can: -…
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SpeechOS is a JavaScript SDK that adds voice input to web applications like CRMs, documents, forms, and support tools. Developers integrate it with a few lines of code and an API key, which activates a microphone widget on text fields. Users can dictate messages with automatic punctuation and grammar correction, issue editing commands like "make it shorter," and trigger custom app actions through voice. It supports custom vocabulary and snippet configuration, aimed at reducing time spent typing in business software.
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Hi Hacker News! I’m David Huie. I’m launching SpeechOS, a drop-in voice input SDK for web apps. I was inspired by Wispr Flow and wanted the same workflow inside business apps (CRMs, docs, forms, support tools), not just a standalone tool. It’s saved me a massive amount of time vs typing. How it works: add a couple lines of JS plus an API key, and SpeechOS shows a small mic widget on every text field. Live demo: https://www.speechos.ai/ (Click a text box and the mic widget appears; click the gear icon to see settings, custom vocabulary, and snippet configuration.) Users can: - Dictate: speak naturally, real-time voice to polished text (punctuation, no filler/typos) - Edit: say “make it shorter”, “fix grammar”, “translate...” - Command: define Siri-style app actions (for example, “submit form”, “mark complete”), and we match intent to your commands It also supports: - Custom vocabulary: domain terms and names (product names, acronyms, jargon) so they transcribe correctly - Text snippets: saved reusable blocks of text you can insert by voice (for example, “my signature”, “disclaimer”, “my address”) Why: text entry speed and accuracy still matter for productivity tools. A large-scale text entry dataset with 37,370 participants showed an average typing speed of 36.2 WPM and ~2.3% uncorrected errors. In speech research, speech recognition was about 3× faster than keyboard input and had ~20.4% lower error rate for English text entry. (https://hci.stanford.edu/research/speech/) SpeechOS is currently in beta and free for now. Sign up at https://app.speechos.ai/accounts/signup/ and enter this HN-only beta code: HN-JFc74cVC (please don’t share outside HN). Links: SDK repo: https://github.com/speechos-org/speechos-client Demo: https://www.speechos.ai/ Signup (code: HN-JFc74cVC): https://app.speechos.ai/accounts/signup/ I’d love feedback on: 1) Where this is most valuable in your stack (notes? docs? CRM entry? support macros?) 2) What you’d want from voice commands/snippets configuration 3) What would make you comfortable shipping this (privacy/security, latency, pricing) If you’re building anything in voice AI/dictation, I’d be happy to swap notes ([email protected]).
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