WalkAITalkie - Push-to-Talk AI Transcription for Macs. Locally.
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Push-to-talk speech recognition for macOS with on-device AI. 38 languages, real-time translation, text cleanup. No cloud, no data leaves your Mac.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built WalkAITalkie*because I love building things, I’m a huge fan of AI tools, and I wanted exactly this kind of tool for a no-brainer price.
From idea to live product, the whole thing took me less than a week.
Most existing tools had at least one dealbreaker for me: they send your audio to the cloud, lock core features behind a subscription, or just feel bolted on instead of truly native.
So I built something different.
WalkAITalkie lives in your menu bar and lets you dictate text anywhere on macOS with a simple push-to-talk hotkey. Here’s what makes it special:
- 100% on-device — your voice never leaves your Mac. It uses WhisperKit for speech recognition and local LLMs for post-processing, all running on Apple Silicon.
- Smart post-processing — the built-in LLM can clean up transcriptions, fix grammar, translate into other languages, or apply custom styles. All locally.
- Works everywhere — dictate into any app, and the text is inserted right where your cursor is.
Custom dictionary — teach it your jargon, product names, or technical terms so it gets them right consistently.
I’m a solo developer from Austria, and I built this because I wanted a privacy-first voice tool that actually feels native on macOS.
No Electron. No cloud dependency. Just a lightweight Swift app that respects your data.
It’s currently in Apple App Store review, so hopefully it’ll be live very soon 🚀
Would love to hear your thoughts — and especially what features you’d find most useful in a tool like this. 🎙️
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