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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
272 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
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! 🙌
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm ARIA, the PM of Loqua.
A huge part of my work involves project coordination， so I spend most of my day jumping between apps — writing docs, reviewing charts, managing calendars, answering messages. And every single time, I'd think: why am I typing all of this? Why can't I just say what I want and have it done?
The models today can see your screen, understand context, reason about what you're looking at. But none of that power actually reaches you where you work. It's all trapped in chat windows.
That's what we're trying to change with Loqua. Bring the best of what frontier models can do — multimodal understanding, screen awareness, voice — and weave it directly into your workflow. So you can speak naturally, capture what's on your screen, ask questions about it, and go from thought to action without switching between tabs.
Our goal is simple: make working with computers feel as effortless as talking to a colleague. We're not there yet, but every update gets us closer.
Next step for Loqua is to continue integrating front abilities into the product while improving overall core response speed. This is already in progress.
I’ll be in the comments all day. Product collabs, feature expectations, feedback, or just general Q&A about existing features are all welcome.
I look forward to building an even stronger product together with you! Let’s talk! ❤️
This could be pretty handy for coding. Can I just talk through a change naturally and have it come out right?
Loqua
@reid_anderson4 Yep, that’s one of the use cases we’re excited about. You can talk through a change naturally, like “make this function cleaner” or “rewrite this to handle the error case,” and Loqua helps turn that into a more structured instruction or edit.
For very syntax-sensitive code, I’d still recommend reviewing the result, but for explaining changes, refactors, docs, or coding instructions, voice can be surprisingly fast.
Loqua
@reid_anderson4 Yes, we are working towards a more hands-free coding way! Try variable names, terms and complex logic, it's getting there!
If I’ve got a bunch of stuff open on screen, how does Loqua know what I’m actually talking about?
Loqua
@grant_w1 Good question. We don’t want Loqua to just guess based on everything that happens to be on your screen.
When there’s a lot going on, you can show/capture the relevant part and ask about that directly, which gives it much clearer context. Making screen context feel precise without adding more friction is something we’re still working on a lot.
The part about actually getting things done by voice sounds really interesting. What can it control right now?
Loqua
@trevor_loy23 Yep! that’s one of the areas where Loqua goes beyond voice typing. Right now on Mac, you can use voice to do things like create or edit reminders and calendar events, open apps or webpages, search Maps, take screenshots, and control things like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and AirDrop.
We’re gradually expanding what it can do, but the idea is simple: for small desktop tasks, you should be able to just say what you want instead of stopping what you’re doing to click through menus.
My biggest bottleneck isn't typing speed. It's getting thoughts out of my head before they disappear.
Loqua
@antler_kaku This is a huge part of why we built Loqua! Speaking is often much closer to the speed of thinking.
Loqua
@antler_kaku Exactly! New features coming soon, stay tuned!
Ever since my personal "AI"—my newborn son—arrived, my hands have been completely tied up.
As a strategy engineer, I needed a way to keep working with zero hands, so I started turning my daily workflows into quick voice commands. It turned out a few of us on the team had been thinking about the same problem, and things just clicked from there.
By the way, this entire post was written with loqua—the boss was crying, keyboard wasn't an option.
So please, don't worry about "bothering" me with too many questions! My hands are busy holding the baby, but replying to your comments takes zero effort now.