We built a dictation app, then gave away the code.
Blurt is an open source companion app for the AssemblyAI Dictation API. Hold a hotkey anywhere on your machine, talk, and the text appears in whatever window you're in.
It's the shortest path from curious to working. Clone it, run it locally, and read exactly how the audio gets captured, streamed, and turned into clean text. Then take the parts you need for your own product.
Learn more and download it here: assemblyai.com/blurt
If you build something with it, drop a screenshot in the comments!
About Blurt on Product Hunt
“Push-to-talk dictation on the AssemblyAI Dictation API”
Blurt launched on Product Hunt on September 22nd, 2026 and earned 78 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. Hold a key, talk, and the words land wherever you're typing. Blurt is a free, open-source Mac dictation app powered by AssemblyAI's Dictation API.
On the analytics side, Blurt competes within Productivity, Open Source, GitHub and Audio — topics that collectively have 774.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Blurt performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Blurt ?
Blurt was hunted by Harnoor Singh. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Harnoor Singh