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Speech recognition, transcription, text-to-speech, voice generation, and voice agents.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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Transcribe.cpp↗ workshop.cjpais.com · HN · 167 comments · 773 points · Jul 19, 2026
Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language↗ translate.kagi.com · HN · 345 comments · 1469 points · Mar 17, 2026
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code↗ github.com · HN · 301 comments · 1006 points · Feb 12, 2026
Voxtral Transcribe 2↗ mistral.ai · HN · 241 comments · 1012 points · Feb 04, 2026
Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation↗ qwen.ai · HN · 225 comments · 744 points · Jan 22, 2026
20251,334 stories
Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model↗ github.com · HN · 361 comments · 1003 points · Aug 06, 2025
OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio↗ george.mand.is · HN · 228 comments · 740 points · Jun 25, 2025
Chatterbox TTS↗ github.com · HN · 188 comments · 670 points · Jun 11, 2025
LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo↗ librelingo.app · HN · 363 comments · 804 points · Apr 29, 2025
The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available↗ discuss.systems · HN · 666 comments · 957 points · Mar 17, 2025
20241,061 stories
The era of open voice assistants↗ home-assistant.io · HN · 278 comments · 931 points · Dec 20, 2024
They stole my voice with AI↗ jeffgeerling.com · HN · 446 comments · 524 points · Sep 22, 2024
Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio↗ illuminate.google.com · HN · 243 comments · 713 points · Sep 10, 2024
Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 244 comments · 716 points · Mar 26, 2024
Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home↗ johnthenerd.com · HN · 186 comments · 699 points · Jan 13, 2024
2023998 stories
How a script doctor found his own voice↗ newyorker.com · HN · 22 comments · 47 points · Dec 30, 2023
Insanely Fast Whisper: Transcribe 300 minutes of audio in less than 98 seconds↗ github.com · HN · 12 comments · 72 points · Nov 14, 2023
Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear↗ rewind.ai · HN · 38 comments · 36 points · Oct 02, 2023
Voder Speech Synthesizer↗ griffin.moe · HN · 7 comments · 46 points · Jul 18, 2023
Microsoft’s new text-to-speech model can duplicate anyone's voice in 3 seconds↗ mpost.io · HN · 33 comments · 49 points · Jan 09, 2023
2022573 stories
I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information↗ roberdam.com · HN · 395 comments · 788 points · Nov 15, 2022
Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI↗ openai.com · HN · 481 comments · 1705 points · Sep 21, 2022
Mimic 3 by Mycroft↗ mycroft.ai · HN · 112 comments · 334 points · Jun 29, 2022
NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality↗ speechresearch.github.io · HN · 149 comments · 377 points · May 17, 2022
Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language↗ coqui.ai · HN · 112 comments · 513 points · Jan 03, 2022
2021550 stories
Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech↗ foundation.mozilla.org · HN · 170 comments · 728 points · Aug 05, 2021
BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound↗ birdnet.cornell.edu · HN · 155 comments · 706 points · Jul 23, 2021
Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux↗ voice2json.org · HN · 108 comments · 486 points · May 21, 2021
Lyra audio codec enables high-quality voice calls at 3 kbps bitrate↗ cnx-software.com · HN · 198 comments · 348 points · Mar 01, 2021
Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be real and functional↗ electronupdate.blogspot.com · HN · 239 comments · 439 points · Jan 12, 2021
2020676 stories
Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices↗ vocodes.com · HN · 165 comments · 462 points · Jul 27, 2020
Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 217 comments · 855 points · Jun 11, 2020
Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics↗ buttplug.io · HN · 249 comments · 770 points · May 06, 2020
How to Speak (2018) [video]↗ ocw.mit.edu · HN · 43 comments · 531 points · Apr 12, 2020
Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit↗ rhasspy.readthedocs.io · HN · 54 comments · 590 points · Jan 01, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech↗ blog.google · HN · 152 comments · 331 points · Sep 23, 2026
Gemini-3.5-Transcribe↗ blog.google · HN · 127 comments · 363 points · Aug 27, 2026
Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost↗ narilabs.com · HN · 31 comments · 92 points · Sep 14, 2026
Canto: A speech model built for the real world↗ wisprflow.ai · HN · 15 comments · 47 points · Sep 17, 2026
Automating Immersive Reading↗ smoores.dev · HN · 49 comments · 127 points · Aug 30, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech↗ blog.google · HN · 152 comments · 331 points · Sep 23, 2026
Automating Immersive Reading↗ smoores.dev · HN · 49 comments · 127 points · Aug 30, 2026
Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost↗ narilabs.com · HN · 31 comments · 92 points · Sep 14, 2026
Canto: A speech model built for the real world↗ wisprflow.ai · HN · 15 comments · 47 points · Sep 17, 2026
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0↗ x.ai · HN · 7 comments · 28 points · Sep 18, 2026
Show HN: See Sounds on Your Webcam↗ soundmap.darebuild.com · HN · 7 comments · 23 points · Sep 10, 2026
Show HN: Open-source simulation testing infra for voice agents↗ github.com · HN · 7 comments · 16 points · Sep 10, 2026
Show HN: A $25 DIY alternative to $159 AI voice recorders – BYOK or local↗ zephclick.com · HN · 3 comments · 11 points · Sep 24, 2026
Show HN: Sparrow-2 – Noise cancellation isn't designed for conversational AI↗ sparrow2.tavuslabs.org · HN · 5 comments · 11 points · Sep 08, 2026
Show HN: Kekoso – On-device dictation and transcription for macOS↗ kekoso.app · HN · 3 comments · 8 points · Sep 02, 2026

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