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
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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!
Matt Mireles
@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
@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
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
Matt Mireles
@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
@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 💎
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
@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
@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
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
@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
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
@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
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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
@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
Cool product! Congrats on the launch! How long did it take you to develop the product?
Matt Mireles
@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
@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.
Leeann Trang
Congrats @mattmireles on this launch! This is the first app I've downloaded from Product Hunt that I was able to get up and running and successfully use in the first minute of downloading. The step by step onboarding was easy and the short email I was in the midst of writing was instantly improved by Talktastic's suggestion (I just hit paste and hit send!). I am an efficiency fiend - are you going to make this for iOS?!?
Matt Mireles
@ph_leeanntrang Thanks so much for the kind words! We're definitely planning to bring TalkTastic to iOS. While it might be a bit challenging to achieve the same level of integration as on macOS due to Apple's restrictions, that's our goal. I'm thrilled to hear you're finding it useful!
Michael Britt
I've been using it for about 4 months now and really like it. I typically use it when composing an email or a Slack post. I just click and talk what I want to say and TalkTastik draws from the information around it to create a cohesive email or post. Real time saver.
Stephanie Boyle
@michael_britt We are so glad to hear that you are enjoying it and saving time! We appreciate you!
Abby
@mattmireles Congratulations on the launch! I like it. Actually voice to text exits on mobile phone for a long time. And I am always curious why there's no such function on laptop. Finally you do it. I am happy it's free now. I will try it today!
Matt Mireles
@abby_zhao TalkTastic is significantly more powerful than anything currently available on phones. It understands your intent in a unique way. Don't just take my word for it—try the product yourself and see the difference.
Aztec Elric
Can't wait to try out this innovative product! It sounds like it's going to make a real impact. 🚀 I'm eager to see how it will simplify tasks and improve efficiency
Stephanie Boyle
@aztec_elric Awesome let us know how it goes!
Tyler Rooney
TalkTastic has been a game-changer for me on macOS. The best transcription I've seen many products and the way it adapts to different contexts and apps is a huge productivity boost. Whether I'm drafting an email or commenting on Slack, it gets the right style and format. It also transcribed and rewrote this comment :)
Matt Mireles
@tyler_rooney1 So glad you're finding it so useful, Tyler. I really appreciate the feedback. Let me know if there's anything else we can do to make it even better for you.
Steve Hutt
Talktastic has been a game-changer for me as a digital entrepreneur. It's incredible how it not only captures my dictation but also understands and refines my thoughts into clear, authoritative replies. The ability to instantly paste short audio replies into text is a huge time-saver. This app has truly transformed the way I work.
Matt Mireles
@steve_hutt That's awesome to hear. It honestly brings a smile to my face. And yeah, that's the goal, is we want to just make it easy to communicate, save time, effort, all the things that technology is supposed to do to improve our lives.
steven rosenblatt
TalkTastic is magical. I've been using it for several months in beta, and it will literally save your fingers. You will never have to type again. Your voice does all the magic thanks to TalkTastic for making this an incredible experience. This was done in TalkTastic.
Stephanie Boyle
@steven_rosenblatt Thanks for trying out. We agree that it's magical! As we like to say: Start Talking. Stop Typing!
Mark Donne
I've been using TalkTastic for the past week, and it has completely transformed how I write emails, send Slack messages, and even draft work content and papers. Despite being a fast typist, I prefer speaking whenever possible. The way TalkTastic refines and polishes my spoken words has genuinely changed my workflow. Highly recommend giving it a try—it's a real game-changer.
Matt Mireles
@mark_donne I appreciate you saying that, Mark. That's exactly what we're aiming for. Thanks, man!
Jim Brewer
Talktastic takes the "Vulcan Mind Melt" of human to Mac to the next level. Less fingers; more integration. Keep it up Matt!
Matt Mireles
@jim_brewer That's the goal!
Alex Dulub
Hey Matt, TalkTastic sounds incredible! The idea of context-aware transcription is really exciting. How does it handle different languages or accents?
Matt Mireles
@alex_dulub It handles accents surprisingly well. While the v1.0 is primarily designed for English atm, we've found that it can adapt across different languages to fit your context dynamically. It's not officially supported for other languages, but it works much better than I expected. Give it a try and let me know what you think!