{"slug": "vox", "name": "Vox", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI tools and apps", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 2.584, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-11-03", "latest": "2026-10-12", "why": "tiniest dictation thing - extremely fast and easy to update or work on", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "tiniest dictation thing - extremely fast and easy to update or work on", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "get-vox.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://get-vox.com/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Vox", "vox"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 800820400, "item_id": 50051275, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051275", "by": "arach", "date": "2026-10-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "tiniest dictation thing - extremely fast and easy to update or work on", "excerpt": "https://github.com/hudsonkit/vox tiniest dictation thing - extremely fast and easy to update or work on", "context": "", "use_case": "Speech-to-text dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: BetterWispr \u2013 Free, open-source dictation for Mac"}, {"id": 734907296, "item_id": 45931706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931706", "by": "dmix", "date": "2025-11-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Vox which is pretty close", "excerpt": "I use Vox which is pretty close https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player They also have cloud syncing for your Flac audio files, that part costs $$ but it's nice if you have lots of lossless rips/torrents.", "context": "", "use_case": "Winamp-like Mac music player", "switched_from": "", "story": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"}, {"id": 732903217, "item_id": 45806451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806451", "by": "disposition2", "date": "2025-11-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For MacOS, you can use Vox", "excerpt": "For Windows & Mac, you can do foobar2000. For MacOS, you can use Vox, https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player I personally use MPD (or something like moodeAudio), and then use clients to listen on various platforms.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["speech-to-text dictation", "winamp-like mac music player"], "compared": [{"slug": "qt", "name": "Qt", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 799591745, "item_id": 49974484, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974484", "by": "rubymamis", "date": "2026-10-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Here are my Qt apps:", "excerpt": "Qt is ugly only when you don't have aesthetical taste. Here are my Qt apps: https://www.get-vox.com/ https://www.get-notes.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1"}, {"id": 797995713, "item_id": 49874732, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874732", "by": "rubymamis", "date": "2026-09-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I wrote my own chat app in Qt, and it is substantially faster and more efficient", "excerpt": "True, I wrote my own chat app in Qt, and it is substantially faster and more efficient (lower battery usage) than anything made with web technologies.[1] [1] https://www.get-vox.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "Desktop chat app", "switched_from": "", "story": "Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)"}, {"id": 791250560, "item_id": 49453160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453160", "by": "TheJostler", "date": "2026-08-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I spent the last seven months building Vox.", "excerpt": "I spent the last seven months building Vox. It compiles a constrained, sentence-based form of English directly to x86_64 NASM assembly. No runtime, no libc, no GC. The compiler is written in Rust. Example: create the log file at \"/tmp/init.log\". open the log file for writing. write \"init started\" to the log file. That compiles to a static, bounds-checked ELF binary. I also used it to start building a minimal Linux di", "context": "creator", "use_case": "English-like systems programming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vox, a systems language whose code reads like English"}, {"id": 770700097, "item_id": 48168756, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168756", "by": "rubymamis", "date": "2026-05-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm using what I learned to create a native LLM client", "excerpt": "Yep, this is a difficult problem. I wrote extensively how I managed to solve this by creating my block editor from scratch using Qt C++ and QML[1]. I faced similar issues - selection between discrete blocks, showing the underlying Markdown under the cursor, varying delegate sizes, etc. I'm using what I learned to create a native LLM client with a streaming Markdown parser[2]. [1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-ed", "context": "", "use_case": "Native LLM chat client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native all the way, until you need text"}, {"id": 761837282, "item_id": 47614830, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614830", "by": "rubymamis", "date": "2026-04-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "an LLM chat client[2]", "excerpt": "Sounds good to me! If you ever need some architectural help I'd be happy to. I have a lot of experience with Qt and QML, I've created a block editor[1] and an LLM chat client[2] and many other projects. 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I built something in the same space but took a different approach \u2014 less fun, more engineering: Vox (https://github.com/rtk-ai/vox) \u2014 local TTS in pure Rust, no API key, no cloud dependency.", "context": "", "use_case": "Local text-to-speech", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042333", "title": "Show HN: BetterWispr \u2013 Free, open-source dictation for Mac", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965308", "title": "Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849409", "title": "Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453159", "title": "Vox, a systems language whose code reads like English", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168058", "title": "Native all the way, until you need text", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609117", "title": "item 47609117", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 2}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 800820400, "item_id": 50051275, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051275", "by": "arach", "date": "2026-10-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "tiniest dictation thing - extremely fast and easy to update or work on", "excerpt": "https://github.com/hudsonkit/vox tiniest dictation thing - extremely fast and easy to update or work on", "context": "", "use_case": "Speech-to-text dictation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: BetterWispr \u2013 Free, open-source dictation for Mac"}, {"id": 734907296, "item_id": 45931706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931706", "by": "dmix", "date": "2025-11-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Vox which is pretty close", "excerpt": "I use Vox which is pretty close https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player They also have cloud syncing for your Flac audio files, that part costs $$ but it's nice if you have lots of lossless rips/torrents.", "context": "", "use_case": "Winamp-like Mac music player", "switched_from": "", "story": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"}, {"id": 732903217, "item_id": 45806451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806451", "by": "disposition2", "date": "2025-11-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For MacOS, you can use Vox", "excerpt": "For Windows & Mac, you can do foobar2000. For MacOS, you can use Vox, https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player I personally use MPD (or something like moodeAudio), and then use clients to listen on various platforms.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On"}]}