> THE STORY
You don't get the full value of AI unless you can communicate at high velocity.
Typing is a bottleneck. The faster you can get ideas out of your head and into your tools, the more you can leverage AI to amplify your work. Voice is the unlock.
I was a power user of early voice tools like SuperWhisper and Wispr Flow - they were great and opened my eyes to what was possible. But none of them treated developers as first-class citizens. So I built Talkie for engineers and tech-forward people who want control: open data, everything is a file, fully pluggable and hookable. Your data. I want you to tinker.
A native macOS app that lives in your menu bar, transcribes locally with state-of-the-art AI, and gets out of your way. No subscriptions, no cloud dependency. Just press a key, talk, and your words appear wherever you're typing.
Dictation is just the beginning. When you take voice-first workflows seriously, a whole surface opens up: memory, analysis, automation, context. That's where Talkie is headed.
> THE FOUNDER

Arach Tchoupani
Founder & Developer
15+ years in tech, from software engineer to CTO. Previously co-founded Breathe Life (acquired 2022), worked at Meta on Creators and Facebook. Now focused on AI-powered tools that make work feel more natural. Based in Montreal, visits SF often.
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