Dictate in the language you're already typing in — VTT detects your keyboard layout and routes to the right engine across 26 languages. Speak; text appears at your cursor in any Mac app. On-device or cloud engines, your call. No account.
Hey PH! I made VTT because I live in two languages, and dictation apps quietly assume you don't.
Especially when they starting to translate FOR YOU! But I HAVE NOT ASKED!
Most tools give you one engine for everything. On-device recognition is great for English but weaker for smaller languages — so you either accept bad transcripts, or ship all your audio to a cloud server, including the parts that never needed to leave your Mac.
VTT lets you decide per language: keep English on-device, route your second language to Deepgram, OpenAI, or ElevenLabs with your own API key. 26 languages, and it follows your keyboard language automatically.
It's free, no account, built solo — so honest feedback shapes the roadmap directly. Which language pairs do you dictate in, and which engine handles your non-English language best?
Love that English stays local. One thing though: the second language is usually the more personal one, and that's the bit going to the cloud. Do I get a clear signal in the moment that audio is leaving my Mac, or is it set once and then invisible?
The auto-routing per keyboard layout is such a thoughtful detail. Every dictation app I've tried either forces one engine for everything or makes me switch manually, and it always breaks mid-thought. Keeping English on-device while routing a second language to a cloud engine automatically is exactly how I'd want to configure this, and I'm genuinely glad someone built it.
About VTT for Mac on Product Hunt
“Voice-to-text for macOS with a fully on-device option”
VTT for Mac launched on Product Hunt on June 25th, 2026 and earned 87 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. Dictate in the language you're already typing in — VTT detects your keyboard layout and routes to the right engine across 26 languages. Speak; text appears at your cursor in any Mac app. On-device or cloud engines, your call. No account.
VTT for Mac was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (655.7k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.1k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 283.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted VTT for Mac?
VTT for Mac was hunted by Ihor Herasymovych. 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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