SpeakON
A MagSafe AI device for a post-keyboard world
1.1K followers
A MagSafe AI device for a post-keyboard world
1.1K followers
Typing is the bottleneck. SpeakON removes it. A MagSafe AI device for iPhone — press once to speak into any app. No mic permission. No switching. Even works with your phone locked. Zero friction.
Very refreshing to see a hardware product. What's the advantage of having an isolated hardware instead of a dictation software? Trying to see if its worth carrying around an extra device.
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@tteer Hi Tod.
Standard dictation apps can be a pain—they hog the mic and force you to jump between windows.
We built a hardware solution to fix that. It packs its own mic (so no audio conflicts) and is strictly push-to-talk, solving the 'always-listening' privacy concern entirely.
Bonus: it won't touch your phone's battery life! 🔋
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@tteer If the smartphone is an extension of ourselves, then this little gadget is an extension of the smartphone.
Hey Ryan! Press once while locked is the biggie. when a thought hits, unlock + find app + tap new-note loses half of it before you can type. the magsafe-with-its-own-mic move sidesteps permissions in a way most ios dictation can't.
curious where people actually use this most. solo at desk is obvious, but voice-in-public is the barrier that kills most dictation apps. does the magsafe clip feel more discreet in practice than holding a phone to your face? Congrats on the launch and good luck!
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@keith_hiyamojo In the future, we might develop some accessories that can be used independently of a phone.
Congrats on the launch! I've been using Wisprflow and love it. Just saw SpeakON is hardware though, what's the advantage over software? Curious before I grab one.
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@qingqin_mao If you already enjoy Wispr Flow,
you’ll probably find SpeakON feels like:
Appreciate you taking a look 🙌
the locked screen use case is the one I didn't expect. half my voice notes end up abandoned because I had to unlock and navigate first.
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@jiang_nancy That’s exactly the problem we kept running into too.
Those moments are super fragile — the idea is there for a few seconds, and any friction (unlocking, opening an app) is enough to lose it.
Lock screen was something we didn’t fully appreciate at the beginning either. But once we tried it, it became obvious:
you don’t want to “prepare to record” — you just want to capture the thought instantly.
Press, speak, done — before the context disappears.
Really glad that part resonated.
Very nice. Can it figure out which app to put the text into or you still need to select the app?
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@jamesl Great idea, James! Right now, SpeakON requires manual app and contact selection, much like traditional messaging. And we will try on voice-command automation (e.g., 'Text Daniel xxx') to make the experience completely seamless. We appreciate the feedback as we build the future of SpeakON!
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@jamesl Good question — right now it follows where your cursor is.
So you don’t need to “select an app” inside SpeakON.
You just:open any app——place the cursor where you’d normally type——press and speak
The text goes directly there.
We intentionally kept it simple — no routing, no extra layer — just replace typing wherever you already are.
This might finally save all those I’ll write it down later ideas that never get written 😅
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@nikita_jain18 Yes exactly, we will have a quick note feature and it will organized by LLM and sync to Obsidians.
Well, does it mean I can use it to chat with my colleagues and my friends by pressing a button only?
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@claudia_liu1 Yes — that’s exactly the idea.
You press, speak, and your message goes straight into whatever chat you’re using — Slack, iMessage, WhatsApp, email… anywhere you can type.
So instead of:
It becomes:
It feels a lot more like talking, just with the output already structured as text.
And because it adapts tone (casual vs more formal), it works just as well for friends as it does for colleagues.