Fact · Dictation on Mac
2minutes
Claude Code's voice dictation stops recording automatically after two minutes in total.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Recording also stops automatically after 15 seconds of silence or two minutes total.”
Voice dictation (Claude Code documentation), Anthropic, Anthropic, 2026, Tap to record and send.
Open the original- What it measures
- Claude Code's documentation for voice dictation, read on 2026-10-16. The same sentence gives the 15 seconds of silence limit.
- What it does not show
- This is the maximum length of one recording in tap mode. It is not a limit on the length of a prompt.