We just built SKI — voice coding for Claude Code, Codex and more. It's not dictation: your agent answers you out loud, like a real teammate, so you build at the speed you think. You can even bring it into a meeting to build live, or send it in your place to speak for you. It's an ambient thing that just sits on your desktop — hit a key, talk, it works. All on your machine, free. Available on Mac & Windows.
We build with coding agents every day, and kept catching ourselves typing a three-sentence prompt we could've said out loud in four seconds. Thinking is fast. Typing is not.
So we built SKI. You hold the Function key, say what you want, and your agent goes and does it — then answers you out loud, like a real person. It's an ambient thing: it sits in your notch and never interrupts your flow.
Three things we care about:
• It answers. Voice input for agents already exists — it's one-directional, words in, text out. SKI closes the loop: it speaks the result back.
• It comes to meetings. Bring your coding session into a call as a real teammate and build live — or send your agent in your place to speak for you.
• It's local. Speech in and voice out both run on your machine. No cloud, works offline.
Free for life — Mac and Windows today, Linux next.
First launch for us, so hard questions are genuinely welcome. What agent do you use, and what would make you keep this open all day?
Congrats on the launch. Assuming this can work with local models since you said it works with Hermes?
This is great! I tried Mac dictation and built in Claude dictation but neither allows for full "away from screen" experience.
Is it possible to call the agent? So that I could talk to it remotely? I guess it's the "bring it to the meeting" that was mentioned?
the answer-out-loud part is the interesting bit, most voice tools stop at input. if I start talking again while it's mid-response, does it interrupt itself or do I have to wait it out?
does the local ASR model stay resident and eating RAM/CPU the whole session, or only spin up on push-to-talk? that's the same always-on-local-audio battery tradeoff we keep running into
if you bring it into a live meeting, how's it telling your commands apart from everyone else talking in the room? seems like the hard part once it's ambient and always-on
interesting would love to see how it grows and evolves in future, which languages does it support?
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Beyond interacting with your AI agent, you can also use SKI for note-taking and organizing your ideas.
Cool launch! Does it enable multiple peole (let's say a team) to voice together requirements and can the agent pick up and distinguish the different voices of speakers?
In windows, it just overlays on top. I’d rather be able to hide it when I don’t need it. Notch seems like a good solution. Is there anything similar available for Windows?
Congrats on the launch! Voice input for coding agents makes sense in a way it never did for typing code, since you're dictating intent rather than syntax. Curious how you handle the context switch when you need to reference a specific file or function mid-sentence. Is there a way to point at things while talking?
Congrats on the launch! Voice input for coding agents feels overdue. Does it handle multi step commands, or is it mostly one shot prompts right now?
Congrats on the launch! How do you prevent voice interactions from becoming more distracting than typing during long coding sessions?
The part that clicked for me is the agent talking back — most voice tools only fix the input half. I build my products solo after a full-time job, so there's no teammate to think out loud with, and something that answers is a different thing than dictation. One question: can I speak one language and have the prompt come out in another? I'd be talking to it in Spanish while my codebase and prompts are English.
Dictation and voice commanding fail differently, and I think that is the interesting part here. A misheard word in dictation sits on the screen and you fix it. A misheard word here goes to something that acts.
Delete the test file and delete the rest of the file are both fluent, both plausible, and ASR will be confident about the wrong one. So confidence scores do not save you, and push to talk only controls when it listens, not what it commits to.
You speak the result back, which closes the loop after the agent has already done it. Does it ever repeat the instruction before, on the ones that are hard to undo?
About SKI on Product Hunt
“Free voice coding for Claude Code, Codex and more”
SKI launched on Product Hunt on July 30th, 2026 and earned 463 upvotes and 131 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. We just built SKI — voice coding for Claude Code, Codex and more. It's not dictation: your agent answers you out loud, like a real teammate, so you build at the speed you think. You can even bring it into a meeting to build live, or send it in your place to speak for you. It's an ambient thing that just sits on your desktop — hit a key, talk, it works. All on your machine, free. Available on Mac & Windows.
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Who hunted SKI?
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Anand Balakrishnan
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Anand, one of the makers.
We build with coding agents every day, and kept catching ourselves typing a three-sentence prompt we could've said out loud in four seconds. Thinking is fast. Typing is not.
So we built SKI. You hold the Function key, say what you want, and your agent goes and does it — then answers you out loud, like a real person. It's an ambient thing: it sits in your notch and never interrupts your flow.
Three things we care about:
• It answers. Voice input for agents already exists — it's one-directional, words in, text out. SKI closes the loop: it speaks the result back.
• It comes to meetings. Bring your coding session into a call as a real teammate and build live — or send your agent in your place to speak for you.
• It's local. Speech in and voice out both run on your machine. No cloud, works offline.
Free for life — Mac and Windows today, Linux next.
First launch for us, so hard questions are genuinely welcome. What agent do you use, and what would make you keep this open all day?