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Bzz — Not your ordinary voice-to-text
Local-first dictation. Your voice never leaves your PC
Most dictation apps stream your audio to their cloud. Bzz does the opposite — transcription runs locally on your machine, so your voice never leaves your computer. Press F9, talk into any app, and text lands at your cursor. No word caps, no session limits. Optional AI polish — local model, your own cloud key, or none. No server processing your audio means ~$4–8/mo, not $12–15. Free until Labor Day. Windows + macOS. From Hiventiq — human-centered AI, rebuilt.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Bill, maker of Bzz.
What inspired it: I got tired of typing. Not the thinking — the mechanical act of it. I talk way faster than I type, so I went looking for a dictation tool. Every good one wanted to stream my audio to their servers. As someone who deals with sensitive stuff — client notes, business, personal — that was a hard no. I didn't want my voice sitting in someone else's cloud.
The problem I'm solving: Dictation shouldn't cost you your privacy, get capped at 2,000 words a week, or lock you into one company's AI. The category treats "your audio never leaves your machine" as an enterprise upsell. I think it should be the default.
How I approached it: I built the opposite of the cloud tools. Transcription runs locally on your machine with an on-device Whisper model — your audio never leaves your computer, period. Press F9, talk into any app, and the text lands right where your cursor is. AI cleanup is optional: a bundled local model, your own cloud key, or none at all. And because I'm not paying servers to process your audio, it'll be way cheaper than the $12–15/mo cloud tools when it goes paid.
I've lived in it daily for months — >10k dictations, 445K words, ~136 hours saved, zero audio uploaded. It's real, not a demo.
It's free until Labor Day, no credit card. I'm looking for early users to join the Discord and tell me what works, what's missing, what's annoying — and I'll build accordingly. I'm here all day answering everything. 🙏
About Bzz — Not your ordinary voice-to-text on Product Hunt
“Local-first dictation. Your voice never leaves your PC”
Bzz — Not your ordinary voice-to-text was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #93 on the daily leaderboard. Most dictation apps stream your audio to their cloud. Bzz does the opposite — transcription runs locally on your machine, so your voice never leaves your computer. Press F9, talk into any app, and text lands at your cursor. No word caps, no session limits. Optional AI polish — local model, your own cloud key, or none. No server processing your audio means ~$4–8/mo, not $12–15. Free until Labor Day. Windows + macOS. From Hiventiq — human-centered AI, rebuilt.
On the analytics side, Bzz — Not your ordinary voice-to-text competes within Productivity, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Bzz — Not your ordinary voice-to-text performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Bzz — Not your ordinary voice-to-text?
Bzz — Not your ordinary voice-to-text was hunted by Bill Kaigler. 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.
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Bill Kaigler