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Kekoso
On-device dictation and transcription for your Mac
Dictate into any Mac app with a hotkey, transcribe audio, video and YouTube links, record calls, export SRT or VTT. Three engine families to pick from: Parakeet, Whisper and SenseVoice, all downloaded once and run on the Neural Engine. Nothing is uploaded, no account, no cloud fallback, and it keeps working with Wi-Fi off. $29 once, 3 Macs, 7-day trial. macOS 14.4+, Apple silicon.
Hi Product Hunt. I am Andrey, I built Kekoso on my own.
I write in two languages all day and I kept hitting the same wall: the dictation that is good is in the cloud, and the dictation that is local is one engine with one set of languages. So I built the thing I wanted. Kekoso runs three engine families side by side. Parakeet TDT v3 is the fast one and covers 25 European languages. Whisper through WhisperKit is the accurate one and covers the long tail of 99. SenseVoice handles Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean, which is exactly the gap Parakeet leaves. You download a model once, switch whenever, and every job after that uses whichever one you picked.
The part that took the longest was silence. Whisper was trained on subtitled video, so on a pause it writes what subtitles usually say there: sign-off lines, translator credits, "to be continued". Pasting that into a message you send a second later is how you lose trust in a dictation app. Lines with no audio behind them now get dropped before anything reaches your text field.
Everything runs on your Mac. The app talks to the network in three places only: your licence, app updates, and fetching audio when you paste a YouTube link. Turn Wi-Fi off and dictation, files and call recordings all still work. No account anywhere.
Being honest about the limits: Apple silicon and macOS 14.4 or later, no Intel. It is not in the App Store, you download a notarised build from the site. There is no speaker diarization yet, so it separates nothing in a two-person recording.
$29 once for 3 Macs, 7 days to try it, no subscription.
For Product Hunt: PH10 takes $10 off, so $19. First 20 people, valid through September 5.
If you dictate in a language nobody supports well, tell me which one. That is the feedback I act on fastest.
About Kekoso on Product Hunt
“On-device dictation and transcription for your Mac”
Kekoso was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #115 on the daily leaderboard. Dictate into any Mac app with a hotkey, transcribe audio, video and YouTube links, record calls, export SRT or VTT. Three engine families to pick from: Parakeet, Whisper and SenseVoice, all downloaded once and run on the Neural Engine. Nothing is uploaded, no account, no cloud fallback, and it keeps working with Wi-Fi off. $29 once, 3 Macs, 7-day trial. macOS 14.4+, Apple silicon.
On the analytics side, Kekoso competes within Mac, Productivity and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Kekoso performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Kekoso?
Kekoso was hunted by Andrey Chmerev. 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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Andrey Chmerev
Hi Product Hunt. I am Andrey, I built Kekoso on my own.
I write in two languages all day and I kept hitting the same wall: the dictation
that is good is in the cloud, and the dictation that is local is one engine with
one set of languages. So I built the thing I wanted. Kekoso runs three engine
families side by side. Parakeet TDT v3 is the fast one and covers 25 European
languages. Whisper through WhisperKit is the accurate one and covers the long
tail of 99. SenseVoice handles Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean, which is
exactly the gap Parakeet leaves. You download a model once, switch whenever, and
every job after that uses whichever one you picked.
The part that took the longest was silence. Whisper was trained on subtitled
video, so on a pause it writes what subtitles usually say there: sign-off lines,
translator credits, "to be continued". Pasting that into a message you send a
second later is how you lose trust in a dictation app. Lines with no audio behind
them now get dropped before anything reaches your text field.
Everything runs on your Mac. The app talks to the network in three places only:
your licence, app updates, and fetching audio when you paste a YouTube link.
Turn Wi-Fi off and dictation, files and call recordings all still work. No
account anywhere.
Being honest about the limits: Apple silicon and macOS 14.4 or later, no Intel.
It is not in the App Store, you download a notarised build from the site. There
is no speaker diarization yet, so it separates nothing in a two-person recording.
$29 once for 3 Macs, 7 days to try it, no subscription.
For Product Hunt: PH10 takes $10 off, so $19. First 20 people, valid through September 5.
If you dictate in a language nobody supports well, tell me which one. That is
the feedback I act on fastest.