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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.
It reads the selected text aloud almost instantly, which is really impressive. I find it incredibly helpful, and the voice sounds very natural.
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.
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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.
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