Guides
How to dictate into terminals, CLI AI tools and any other input on macOS — and what to check when it stops working.
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Offline voice input for Claude Code, including over SSH
Claude Code's built-in dictation streams audio to Anthropic and doesn't run in SSH sessions. Here's what on-device voice input changes.
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Mac Dictation Not Working in Terminal — Causes, Ordered by Likelihood
Why dictation and hold-to-talk voice tools silently fail in Terminal and iTerm2, starting with Secure Keyboard Entry. Each cause with a way to confirm it.
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Voice Input in the Mac Terminal (Not the say Command)
Dictating into Terminal, iTerm2 and SSH sessions on macOS — why built-in Dictation falls flat there, and the approaches that actually land text.