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I've been coding with Claude, and I pretty much do it exclusively by voice now, simply because it's so much faster. And I kind of feel like Scotty from Star Trek IV, when he holds up a Mac mouse to try to talk into it. I've been using VoiceInk [1] which looks like it's basically the same as this, but has been around for longer. 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I've been coding with Claude, and I pretty much do it exclusively by voice now, simply because it's so much faster. And I kind of feel like Scotty from Star Trek IV, when he holds up a Mac mouse to try to talk into it. I've been using VoiceInk [1] which looks like it's basically the same as this, but has been around for longer. What has really made it work for me is ", "context": "codes with Claude almost exclusively by voice", "use_case": "voice dictation for coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: BetterWispr \u2013 Free, open-source dictation for Mac"}, {"id": 800706016, "item_id": 50044126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044126", "by": "oscarteg", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I recently switched to Voiceink which also does similar.", "excerpt": "I recently switched to Voiceink which also does similar. 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