Fact · Dictation in your apps
Some keyboard keys are not delivered to terminal applications, so Claude Code's dictation key cannot be set to them.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Some keys are not delivered to terminal applications”
Voice dictation (Claude Code documentation), Anthropic, Anthropic, 2026, Rebind the dictation key.
Open the original- What it measures
- The page gives Caps Lock as an example, and it shows an error when you try to bind it.
- What it does not show
- The page gives one example. It does not list every key that a terminal blocks.