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HoldTalk
Hold fn, speak, and the text appears in any Mac app
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Hold fn, speak, and the text appears in any Mac app
6 followers
HoldTalk is dictation for the Mac without a subscription. Hold the fn key, speak, and the text appears at the cursor in any app. Transcription runs on your Mac with Apple's speech engine, with a personal dictionary and a searchable history. 7 days of Pro free, then 2,000 free words a week or Pro once for 19 EUR during the launch.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Théo, a solo developer in Valencia. I built HoldTalk because I wanted the Wispr Flow gesture (hold a key, talk, the text appears) without sending my voice to a server or paying every month.
You hold fn, speak, and let go: the text is pasted where your cursor is, in any app. It runs on Apple's on-device speech engine in macOS 26, there's no account, and a personal dictionary fixes names and jargon after each dictation. It works in English, French and Spanish.
The launch price is 19 EUR, paid once, and it goes to 29 EUR later. Tell me what breaks, especially the apps where pasting fails and the words it gets wrong with your accent.
Nice that transcription runs on Apple's speech engine locally, no subscription is a refreshing angle for dictation. How does accuracy hold up with technical jargon or names, does the personal dictionary learn from corrections automatically or do you add words by hand?
@galdayan Hey Gal! Thanks for your interest, I really appreciate it.
Accuracy is Apple's on-device engine, so everyday words are solid, but names and jargon are where it slips. That's what the dictionary is for: you add a word once with its exact spelling, plus the ways it gets misheard (say "Kubernetes" heard as "cooper netties"), and HoldTalk fixes it after every dictation.
For now you add words by hand. Learning from your corrections automatically is on my list. If you try it, I'd love to know which words it gets wrong for you.