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Sotto
Local read-aloud for selected text on macOS
Sotto is a native macOS menu-bar app that reads selected text aloud locally. Select text anywhere, press your shortcut, and hear it under 2 seconds using Kokoro through FluidAudio/CoreML. Pause, change speed, or jump between sections from the menu bar.
Hey Product Hunt,
I built Sotto because I wanted a faster way to listen to text on my Mac without copying it into another app or sending it to a cloud TTS API.
Sotto lives in the menu bar. Select text in any macOS app, press your shortcut, and it starts reading locally in under 2 seconds using Kokoro through FluidAudio/CoreML.
You can pause, speed up, slow down, stop, or jump between previous and next sections from the menu bar.
I use it for docs, drafts, issues, articles, and long messages when listening is easier than staring at another paragraph.
It is still early, and I’d love feedback on:
- selected-text extraction reliability
- reading order for tables and PDFs
- local TTS model support
- optional cloud providers while keeping local-first as the default
GitHub: https://github.com/Shreysid/Sotto
Thanks for taking a look.
About Sotto on Product Hunt
“Local read-aloud for selected text on macOS”
Sotto was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #146 on the daily leaderboard. Sotto is a native macOS menu-bar app that reads selected text aloud locally. Select text anywhere, press your shortcut, and hear it under 2 seconds using Kokoro through FluidAudio/CoreML. Pause, change speed, or jump between sections from the menu bar.
On the analytics side, Sotto competes within Productivity, Open Source, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps and OpenAI Day — topics that collectively have 778.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Sotto performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Sotto?
Sotto was hunted by Shreyas Siddaraju. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Sotto including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Shreyas Siddaraju