Show HN: Say It – private, local text-to-speech for macOS

Posted by nooneiswatching on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:26PM
from the show-hn dept.

Speak text from any app with a hotkey. Open models 100% on-device.

Here's a video: https://x.com/callebtc/status/2086860351891476848

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Re:Show HN: Say It – private, local text-to-speech for macOS by ipotapov on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @02:54AM (#49254298)

Your feature of speaking text from any app with a hotkey is a neat implementation for macOS. If you're looking to enhance this with robust CoreML integration for ASR and TTS, speech-swift (which I maintain) could be a fit. It offers a native Swift async experience on macOS. Check it out here: https://github.com/soniqo/speech-swift

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