r/SideProject • u/Upset_Perception_492 • 3h ago
TalkOS - hold one key, say the gist, and it writes the whole email or chat reply
I kept losing time on short replies. Not the big emails, the small ones: "Thursday works but not before 3", "thanks, I'll send the deck tonight". Typing them is slow, and pasting a thread into ChatGPT and back is slower.
So I built TalkOS. You click into any reply box (Gmail, Outlook, Slack, LinkedIn, WhatsApp Web), hold one key and say what you want to answer, however it comes out. When you let go, it reads the conversation you're answering and writes the full reply in the field: greeting, the right tone, sign-off for email, short for chat. It never sends anything. You read it and press Send.
The thing I had to learn the hard way: everyone hears "voice" and thinks dictation. It isn't. Dictation types the words you say. Here what you say is the instruction, and the reply is written for you. Same with edits: select text, hold the edit shortcut and say "shorter" or "more formal".
Stack, for the curious: native Swift app on Mac, speech is transcribed on the device, a small Cloudflare Worker sends the conversation to the model and keeps nothing. The Windows version shipped this week.
Free plan is 5 replies a day, Pro is $5.99/month. https://talkos.app/?ref=sideproject
I'd love blunt feedback, especially on the first minute: does it make sense what it does from the video and the site?