Hi, hi, hi! Happy Friday! In today’s digest I’m covering a new AI tool that makes your keyboard much more context-aware. But first.
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a number of startups trying to push AI further by making sure it’s context-aware. Sarah from the Product Hunt team recently covered Pieces Copilot+ in our dev tools newsletter, which captures context across everything developers are working on to boost productivity.
Now, TalkTastic wants to tackle the same problem but for a larger set of users. It’s a context-aware AI-powered keyboard app that automatically transcribes your speech and refines and rewrites what you’re saying based on the context of your screen. It works across all of your MacOS apps that use your keyboard, such as Slack, Teams, and everything in between.
Say you’re about to reply to an investor email. Rather than typing it out, you can hit the microphone button and start dictating your copy. From there, TalkTastic will write your email while fixing any vocal tics, adjusting for tone, and correcting any spelling of names, all based on what’s currently on your screen. Then, if you hop over to Slack and DM your coworker, TalkTastic will automatically adjust it for that scenario.
According to the team, TalkTastic “combines the capabilities of Apple Dictation, on-device Whisper, ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini into one powerful, easy-to-use package” and
It’s not the Founder and CEO, Matt Mireles’s first rodeo in the voice scene either. He previously founded a Google Ventures-backed startup that focused on video transcription powered by speech, which was later acquired.
Building a startup is hard. Just ask anyone that’s launched their passion project on the Product Hunt homepage. Keegan Walden, PhD is a founder, psychologist, and executive coach working with the founders of venture backed startups. He’s also the co-founder of Torch so he’s been through the process. He recently wrote an article where he does a deep-dive into some of his thoughts on building a startup..
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