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Loqua
Speak naturally and move from thoughts to being done
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Speak naturally and move from thoughts to being done
224 followers
Your thoughts shouldn’t have to slow down for a keyboard. With Loqua, you can speak naturally to turn rough ideas into ready-to-use writing, understand what’s on your screen, listen when you’d rather not read, and move work forward by voice - from rewriting and translation to scheduling and coding workflows. Less typing, less context switching, more time in flow.
Loqua
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Josh, founder of theloqua.ai.
I've spent my whole career as a speech and LLM researcher — and honestly, no voice product ever did what I actually needed. So I know exactly where ASR and voice agents break.
It got personal when carpal tunnel, TFCC, and an old ski injury turned long hours at the keyboard into real pain. I live at my desk, deep in conversation with LLMs all day, and typing simply couldn't keep up with how fast I think. I wanted to speak the way I think — not the way I type.
Not a wrapper
Old dictation was a cascade of small models — transcribing sounds but never understanding meaning, and one mis-heard word broke everything downstream. So our team — a group of research scientists who've spent years training and optimizing models — set out to build it properly. Loqua is not a wrapper. Instead of gluing everything to an LLM, we built one full omni model where your voice and your screen share the same context.
That single choice is what makes Loqua different. When you Capture to Ask — point at a chart, an error, or a table on your screen and just ask by voice — it reads code and tables more reliably, holds context better, and runs noticeably faster than bolt-on tools, thanks to a multimodal tokenizer and codec we designed ourselves. And because we train the model in-house, we keep sharpening it to real product needs and your feedback, every week.
Where we're headed
Voice and vision are only step one, though. The real direction is agentic — Loqua doing things for you. Say "remind me to send the Q4 draft at 3pm, and FaceTime Sarah" — and it happens, without you digging through menus or breaking your train of thought. Those little app-hunting detours are exactly what wreck your focus; Loqua takes them off your hands by voice so you can stay in the zone. And that's just our first attempt — next we're going after longer, multi-step tasks you can hand off in a blink and a simple sentence.
What you can do today
✍️ Speak, get polished text in any app
⚡ Capture to Ask — ask about anything on your screen
🎯 Get things done by voice across your Mac
🔊 Listen instead of read
🌐 ~100 languages, on macOS & Windows
Who it's for
It clicks fastest for people who live at a keyboard and now spend much of the day talking to AI — developers, PMs, researchers. A developer speaks a change straight to their coding agent in Cursor or Claude Code. A PM turns a rough spoken thought into a clean Slack update. Someone points at a chart on screen and just asks. And honestly, whatever you do all day — if your thinking outruns your hands, Loqua is for you.
AP, Yahoo Finance & PR Newswire just covered us: *"Voice-to-text was never enough. Meet voice that sees."*
https://apnews.com/press-release...
We also launched adn ranked 1st in Uneed last week.
https://www.uneed.best/weekly?da...
Your keyboard isn't going away — you'll just need it less.
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We're especially trying to figure out which workflows people most want to make voice-native. So I'm curious — what's something that's annoying to type today but would feel natural to just say out loud? I'll be in the comments all day. 🙏
@joshua_zhou731 The Capture to Ask feature really caught my attention. Being able to point at something on your screen and ask about it by voice sounds really useful.
Loqua
@david_turner12 Hey David, thanks for coming! That is the real pain in our daily job working on tables and excels. The idea of making acoustic and visual context together for transformers brings the speed and accuracy another level, and we will keep improving it!
@joshua_zhou731 I like the idea of saying what’s on your mind instead of stopping to type it all out. That could save a lot of time during a busy workday.
Loqua
@oliver_graf1 Thanks Oliver! Most of this post is directly transcribed from pure oral input and the way of working has changed fundamentally. We will keep improving the model and user experience!
What made you build this instead of just using voice input with ChatGPT or another AI tool?
Loqua
@jack_pearson33 Great question. ChatGPT voice is great when you want to have a conversation with ChatGPT. What we wanted was voice to work inside the things you’re already doing — writing an email, editing text, looking at something on screen, coding, or handling a quick desktop task.
So Loqua is less about putting voice into another chat box, and more about making voice a layer across your desktop. That difference is really what pushed us to build it.
I'm curious where you have found voice is actually quicker than typing. Are there certain tasks where it's a clear win?
Loqua
@grace_gui02 Definitely not for everything. The clearest wins for us are when you already know what you want to say but don’t want to stop and type it all out: first drafts, long explanations, rewriting existing text, or capturing an idea before it disappears.
It’s also surprisingly useful when your hands are busy or when typing would force you to break focus and switch tools. That’s usually where voice starts to feel meaningfully faster, not just technically faster.
Triforce Todos
Good to see you guys thriving @joshua_zhou731
BTW, does it actually understand accents or does it struggle if one is not speaking native english?
Loqua
@abod_rehman Accents are our expertises and we will keep improving it. This built-in model uses massive training data of multiple languages and it takes audio/text context for prefix calc so it understands better and will also do auto corrects of all forms of spoken english, go ahead and try!
how well does Loqua handle different acents and speech style when turning voice into polished writing?
Loqua
@johnnie_kuvalis Pretty well in our testing. Loqua is designed to handle different accents and more natural, conversational speech rather than expecting you to speak like you’re dictating word by word.
It also tries to clean up grammar and structure without flattening your original tone or speaking style. That said, very strong accents, noisy audio, or mixed-language speech can still be harder depending on the language, so we’re continuing to improve that. Curious which accent/language you’d want to use it with 👀
What has been the hardest part of making voice interactions reliable enough for real work?
Loqua
@albertnelson Honestly, the hardest part isn’t just speech recognition accuracy, it’s understanding intent reliably enough that the result is actually useful.
Real speech is messy: people pause, correct themselves, change direction mid-sentence, and rely on context that isn’t spoken out loud. For actions, there’s another layer too: knowing when Loqua should just do something versus when it should ask first. That trust boundary has been one of the most interesting problems for us.
Loqua
Hey Product Hunt 👋 Miao here — one of the makers behind Loqua.
A slightly funny thing about me: I’ve spent years working on speech technology, and I still type way too much.
My work has taken me across both ASR and TTS — building evaluation frameworks, defining multilingual quality standards, working on speech data collection and validation, and spending probably too much time arguing over whether a model actually understood someone… or just happened to get the words right.
After doing that for long enough, you start noticing something:
“Accurate” speech tech can still be pretty annoying to use.
With a lot of voice tools, I caught myself doing prep work before I even spoke.
Remove the “uh.”
Figure out the sentence first.
Slow down.
Try not to change my mind halfway through.
Basically… speak like I was typing.
At that point, I might as well just type 😅
That was one of the reasons Loqua really clicked for me.
We started with voice typing, and that’s still a big part of the product. But somewhere along the way, “voice typing” stopped feeling like the whole description.
If I’m already speaking naturally, I want my computer to do a little more with what I mean.
Maybe that’s turning a rough thought into something I can actually send.
Maybe it’s changing a paragraph without typing another prompt.
Maybe I’m looking at something on my screen and really don’t want to explain all the context again.
Maybe I’d rather listen to a document than stare at it for another ten minutes.
And honestly, sometimes the win is much less glamorous:
I just don’t want to stop what I’m doing, open another app, find the right place, click around, and then remember what I was doing before.
Those tiny interruptions add up.
That’s why I’ve become much more interested in Loqua as a voice agent — not because “agent” sounds cooler than “dictation,” but because I want voice to help with the work around typing too.
My favorite line from this launch is still:
Your keyboard isn’t going away. You’ll just need it less.
We’re still figuring out where voice genuinely feels better than typing — and where it doesn’t.
So if you try Loqua and catch yourself thinking, “Nope, I could’ve typed that faster,” please tell me 😭
That’s genuinely useful feedback for us.
@ema_miao Congrats on the launch, cool idea.
Loqua
@lorina_balan Thank you so much for your support! 🙌