TalkTastic
Voice Keyboard that Understands Your Personal Context
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Chris Messina

TalkTastic for macOS - Context-aware voice keyboard for any app

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Meet TalkTastic—a context-aware AI voice keyboard for macOS. Dictate speech with unprecedented accuracy in any app and get refined rewrites based on your screen context. Clear, impactful, and authentic communication in any app. Start talking. Stop typing.

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Chris Messina
Raycast
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Talktastic is exactly that — a fantastic app that makes it easy to naturally dictate to your Mac but goes above and beyond conventional dictation by interpolating your meaning based on the context of the app you're using or the people you're talking to! That is, say you're writing an email to your investors in Superhuman — you'll want to sound one way (professional, upbeat, optimistic) whereas if you're hanging out in Github comments and making an argument for a feature change, you'll want to sound balanced, rigorous, and also not like a jerk. Talktastic adjusts the content it generates based on whatever you dictate, but goes one step beyond anything else that's out there. You've got to try it to understand!
Max Savonin
@chrismessina This sounds like a very interesting concept, Talktastic! The ability to contextually adjust dictated text based on the application or recipient is innovative. I have a couple of questions: - Can users define their own preferred writing styles for specific contexts, or does Talktastic rely solely on pre-programmed settings? - How does Talktastic ensure the accuracy of the rewritten text while maintaining user control over the final content? As a developer, I'm curious about the technical aspects behind the contextual adjustments. If those align with my expertise (e.g., natural language processing, machine learning), I might be able to contribute to future development. Overall, Talktastic seems like a powerful tool for improving dictation workflows. I'd love to learn more about how it can help streamline communication!
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@chrismessina @max_savonin1 TalkTastic is responsive to your context in a way that other applications aren't. For example, we built OASIS AI, and you'd have to choose different writing styles and apply these filters. But it was kind of the same for everybody. With TalkTastic, there's no static writing style. It's not just some predefined styles. It's completely contextual to you and your environment and what you're trying to do. We really try to keep your authentic voice and then use the AI to fit it in the context, if that makes sense. I recommend you take it for a spin and let me know what you think. I'd love to hear your feedback.
Stephanie Boyle
TalkTastic
Maker
@chrismessina @max_savonin1 Hi Max, to answer your questions, 1. We don't yet have the ability to adjust the dials on the context as of yet, but it's definitely on the roadmap. However, the good news is that with our context snapshot set to on, TalkTastic can understand your general writing style within the environment in which you are communicating. 2. Our speech recognition is best-in-class in terms of performance and accuracy. The core of our beta testing hypotheses are around this very question: how to make the context feature meet the needs of users wherever they are speaking? To that end, we offer a few versions of rewrites plus a direct transcription within the current product. Users can select which version to use, adding some signal. Ultimately we envision some more proactive controls for users. I can connect you with the team who can talk more about the technical aspects and future points of collaboration if you contact me here: stephanie@talkastic.com.
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
Hey Product Hunters! 👋 Do you think and talk faster than you type? 🧠 ⚡️ 🗣️✨ Meet TalkTastic, a context-aware AI voice keyboard that seamlessly integrates with all your favorite macOS apps. Simply press a button and start talking. TalkTastic not only transcribes your speech with unprecedented accuracy but also generates refined rewrites based on your screen’s context. 👉 Crazy Accurate Transcription – More accurate than ChatGPT, OpenAI Whisper & Apple. 👉 Contextual Rewriting – Clarifies and formats your thoughts to fit your specific context. 👉 Seamless integration with  macOS – Auto-pastes the text output to the app you're using. 🤩 TalkTastic is like an Instagram filter for your mind, enhancing your communication across all your apps to ensure your messages are clear, impactful, and authentic. Sound like the best version of you, not a robot. Think of it as a Neuralink connection without the wires. OASIS AI was our proof of concept; TalkTastic is the next iteration, designed for daily use. 💬 Whether you’re writing emails, texting, messaging in Slack, or drafting a document, TalkTastic offers faster and more accurate voice-to-text performance than ChatGPT, Google, and OpenAI Whisper. Just press a button and speak in any app on your computer. 🧪 In the future, we plan to publish a scientific research paper on our breakthrough in speech recognition that quantifies the superhuman accuracy of our patent-pending approach. 🙏 I’m @mattmireles, and I’m thrilled to introduce you to TalkTastic, the best product I’ve ever built. The fantastic future is here. You just need to download it: https://talktastic.com
@mattmireles Kudos to you for this launch! Wishing you and your team a fantastic journey ahead. What’s next on the horizon for your team?
Jesse Middleton
Ambition Today - Shahab Kaviani of CoFounders Lab, Breezio, and Hyperoffice
@mattmireles so excited to see this go live!
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@kjosephabraham Thanks, Joseph! We have a lot on the roadmap. In the near term, we're adding features like history, custom shortcuts, and an even cleaner interface. Medium term, we're looking at introducing a Chrome extension and business tier with end-to-end encryption. Exciting times ahead!
Stefans Keiss
This looks really useful! Does it support multiple languages or just English for now?
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@memphys_sk Thanks for your comment! TalkTastic is primarily designed for English. However, we've discovered that the AI does contextual auto-translation. It translates any spoken languages into English or other target language, based on your context. It's not fully reliable yet, and frankly, I'm stunned that it works at all. Feel free to give it a try and let me know how it works for you. I'm very curious to hear about your experience!
Artem Konovalov 💎
Shorty
First, I thought you had simply reinvented the Dictation mode or Siri on macOS. However, after trying it, I found it to be much better than everything I've used before. Also, the built-in dictation doesn't work everywhere (like in this comment field haha) Good luck! 🎉
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@mattisssa I'm glad you like it. I think it's a common experience. I really appreciate the support!
Lars Vagnes
I use Talktastic every day, and it has truly transformed how I handle my tasks. It makes answering backed-up emails, doing outreach on LinkedIn or X, and responding to messages so much easier and faster. I can power through these tasks at least ten times quicker. I also find it incredibly useful for brainstorming ideas. I just start talking, and the transcripts appear in my Apple Notes. It's a massive time saver. I love this product!
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@lars_vagnes Thanks man. Appreciate you! You've been with us since the early beta days, and I truly appreciate all your feedback and support in making the product better.
Tom Etminan
clip.audio
TalkTastic is a really magical product. I use it daily on my Mac & miss it when I'm on my iPhone. The ability to just speak, knowing you'll be understood perfectly, is really freeing. I've always hated responding to emails and messages, my bar for clarity is high & it takes me forever to edit and perfect a response. But with TalkTastic, it often nails not just the key points, but also the contextually appropriate tone, style & formatting. I find it allows me to focus on the ideas I'm conveying, instead of how I'm saying or writing them, which is really powerful. The product experience also is exceptional—fast, stable, beautifully designed, and seamlessly integrated with the OS.
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@tetmin Tom, I appreciate your support. Your feedback from the very beginning has been super useful. Thank you so much for being a part of this.
Elaine Lu
Vozo AI — Video localization
Congratulations on the launch of TalkTastic for macOS! @mattmireles This context-aware voice keyboard sounds like a fantastic tool for enhancing productivity. I am curious to know how TalkTastic handles different accents and dialects in its voice recognition? Can you completely mimic our authentic style?
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@elaineluyi Elaine, thanks! TalkTastic handles accents and dialects surprisingly well. I invite you to try it out. By incorporating context, the AI becomes much more accurate, making issues with accents and dialects less relevant. Regarding authenticity, that's what we aim for. We aim to make it sound like you.
Josh Arnold
💎 Pixel perfection
Talktastic has been a natural integration to my daily life chatting back and forth between the frontier model du jour in Cursor, and speeding up sending emails, drafting messages, etc. I've tried pretty much all of the current options out there and have even created my own, and Talktastic is clearly the best option out there. In addition, @mattmireles has been a joy to interact with and is extremely responsive when it comes to feedback and bug reporting. Their UI for feedback is stellar and is deserving of a spinout product of its own. In fact, it's been something I've specifically been interested in seeing someone create. It's worth an install just to see their approach to feedback in work! I don't post on ProductHunt.. well ever.. these days, but I had to make this post because of how impressed I've been at both Talktastic's current product and their rate of progress. I'm looking forward to seeing how they continue to build Talktastic beyond what is already the best-in-class experience for voice dictation (though classifying the product as a voice dictation tool is underselling the product). Keep up the incredible work, @mattmireles!
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@joshualarnold Thanks, Josh. We're incredibly lucky to have power users like you in our community. Your feedback and praise mean a lot. It makes me really happy to know that TalkTastic is so useful for you.
Pavel Bocharov
Nebbl
Cool product! Congrats on the launch! How long did it take you to develop the product?
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@pavel_bocharov We started working on the first iteration in December 2023. Initially, we aimed to build an iOS keyboard, but OS limitations forced us to pivot to macOS. 1. Engineering down the latency in a way that abstracts away complexity from the end user was a major challenge, due to the multi-step process of running models both locally and in the cloud, plus the variability of local hardware. Making AI models run locally in real-time is complex, required doing low-level memory management in C. 2. Ensuring the context worked correctly without misunderstandings or hallucinations was tough. 3. Making sure people sound authentic and not like a robot took an inordinate amount of effort. So, in total, it took us about seven and a half months.
Aqib Maqsood
Fantastic, Better than other AI tools as it is context-aware
Matt Mireles
TalkTastic
Maker
@aqib_maqsood Absolutely, Aqib! You will be amazed at how powerful context is for doing this kind of stuff. It makes a world of difference.
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