Voice dictation (Claude Code documentation)

“Supported dictation languages Language Code Czech cs Danish da Dutch nl English en French fr German de Greek el Hindi hi Indonesian id Italian it Japanese ja Korean ko Norwegian no Polish pl Portuguese pt Russian ru Spanish es Swedish sv Turkish tr Ukrainian uk” (Change the dictation language)

“Voice dictation uses the same language setting that controls Claude’s response language. If that setting is empty, dictation defaults to English.” (Change the dictation language)

“it takes precedence over a claude.ai sign-in, so remove it and restart Claude Code” (Troubleshooting)

“Audio is not processed locally.” (Requirements)

“Press Esc or Ctrl+C to cancel a dictation instead of finalizing it.” (Cancel a recording)

“Hold detection requires your terminal to send key-repeat events” (Hold to record)

“Voice mode enabled (hold). Hold space to record. Dictation language: en (/config to change).” (Enable voice dictation)

“Some keys are not delivered to terminal applications” (Rebind the dictation key)

“On macOS, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone and enable your terminal app, then run /voice again.” (Troubleshooting, Microphone access is denied)

“the speech-to-text service is only available when you authenticate with one” (Requirements)

“voice dictation does not work in cloud sessions or SSH sessions” (Requirements)

“voice dictation hit three failures within 10 seconds. Claude Code pauses dictation until 10 seconds have passed since the first of those failures” (Troubleshooting)

“your current project name and git branch name are added as recognition hints automatically.” (Enable voice dictation)

“macOS won't re-prompt a process that is already running. Quit the terminal app with Cmd+Q, not just close its windows, then open it again.” (Terminal not listed in macOS Microphone settings, step 2)

“Run /voice to enable dictation.” (Enable voice dictation)

“Recording also stops automatically after 15 seconds of silence or two minutes total.” (Tap to record and send)

“Switch to tap mode with /voice tap to avoid the key-repeat requirement” (Troubleshooting)

“Claude Code inserts the transcript and submits the prompt automatically when the transcript is at least three words long.” (Tap to record and send)

“On macOS, this triggers the system microphone permission prompt for your terminal if it has never been granted.” (Enable voice dictation)

“If your terminal app does not appear under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone, there is no toggle you can enable.” (Terminal not listed in macOS Microphone settings)

“Transcription does not consume Claude messages or tokens and does not count toward the limits shown in” (Requirements)

“Transcription is tuned for coding vocabulary in both modes.” (Enable voice dictation)

“Recording also stops automatically after 15 seconds of silence or two minutes total.” (Tap to record and send)

“/voice is available only while a claude.ai account is your active sign-in” (Troubleshooting)

“Audio recording uses a built-in native module on macOS, Linux, and Windows.” (Requirements, voice dictation page)

“It is not available in VS Code Remote sessions, including SSH, Dev Containers, and Codespaces” (Requirements)