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Dictate to your coding agent. Keep the names right.

Dictation for coding is less about writing code by voice and more about talking to the tools that write it: Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot chat, a terminal prompt. A long, specific prompt is faster to say than to type, if the app keeps your identifiers intact and pastes into the right window. Parlin does that on-device, with a developer dictionary that biases recognition toward your project's names, for $39 once.

Why developers dictate now

Coding agents reward long prompts: the more context you give, the better the result. Typing three paragraphs about what the function should do is slow. Saying it is not. Hold a key, describe the change, let go, and the prompt is in the agent's input box, cleaned up, in a few seconds. Reviewers do the same for pull request comments.

The vocabulary problem, solved

General dictation turns 'useAuthStore' into 'use off store' and your repo's name into something from a dictionary. Parlin has a developer dictionary: add identifiers, project names, coworker names, and internal terms, and the speech engine is biased toward them at recognition time, not patched afterwards. The cleanup step then keeps code-shaped tokens as you said them.

  • Types into Cursor, VS Code, Zed, iTerm, Terminal, Warp, a browser tab: anywhere with a cursor (direct build).
  • Bring your own Ollama model for cleanup if you want a different one than the bundled model.
  • Everything runs on the Mac. Prompts about unreleased code never leave it.

How it fits a session

Start the agent. Hold Fn and describe the task in full sentences: the file, the behavior, the edge case you care about. Let go; the text lands in the input. Read it, hit Enter. When the agent asks a question, answer by voice. For a code review, dictate the comment into the GitHub text box the same way.

Parlin's English engine returns text in about 0.2 seconds and scores about 98% on clear speech. Parlin is $39 once, rising to $69 on October 31, 2026, with a 7-day free trial and no card required.

Questions people ask

Can I dictate into the terminal?

Yes, with the direct build. It types into any app with a text field, including Terminal, iTerm, and Warp, so agent prompts and shell commands both work.

Will it mangle variable names?

Add them to the developer dictionary in Settings. Recognition is biased toward those terms, so camelCase identifiers and project names come through as you said them.

Does my prompt get sent to a server?

No. Speech recognition and cleanup both run on the Mac. Nothing is uploaded, which matters when you are describing unreleased code.

Can I use my own model for cleanup?

Yes. The direct build can use any Ollama model from Settings. The bundled on-device model works with no setup.

Say the prompt. Ship the change.

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