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AriaType is an open-source voice-to-text app for macOS that lets you speak naturally and type anywhere with a hotkey. It works right at your cursor, supports local-first processing for better privacy, and helps you turn speech into polished text without breaking your flow.
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TL;DR 🌐 https://ariatype.com 💻 https://github.com/SparklingSynapse/AriaType 👋 Hey Hunters! The origin story: I'm a CS developer with 10 years of experience. This Spring Festival, I was working on a web coding project. About 3 days in, I realized something: The biggest challenge wasn't the cost of AI subscriptions. It was my stamina. The constant cycle of writing prompts, correcting AI outputs, and context-switching was exhausting. So I built myself a voice input tool. Why build it myself? I looked at Typeless. The subscription was steep — almost matching my AI plan. I wasn't willing to pay that much for something I could build for myself. (But it's great, to be frankly) Two hours. MVP. LLaMA CPP + Whisper. Rough around the edges, but functional. Good enough for personal use. Then the real work started: After sharing it with colleagues post-holiday, I got real feedback. Some of it stung, but all of it was valuable. So I spent the following weekends polishing it. What I'm proud of: - 100% open source - Everything runs locally by default - Works in any app via global hotkey - Minimal footprint on Apple Silicon The honest challenge: The hardest part wasn't the MVP. It was the 80% after — making AI reliably modify and extend a growing codebase. Called "harness engineering."