Talk to your
AI coding agent.
Voice commands for Claude Code, Codex, and any CLI tool. 100% local — no cloud, no subscriptions.
brew tap dragfly/tap
brew install dictare
dictare setup
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dragfly/dictare/main/install.sh | bash
macOS & Linux · MIT License · View on GitHub →
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The key difference
No focus required.
Dictare listens globally. Speak while reading docs in your browser, reviewing a PR, or doing anything else — no need to click back to a terminal. Your agent hears you wherever your focus is.
Why Dictare
100% Local
Whisper, Parakeet — your choice of speech model. Zero data leaves your machine. No accounts, no API keys, no cloud.
Always Ready
Runs as a system service. Models preloaded at startup — speak and it responds instantly. Zero cold-start.
One Interface, Every Agent
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Aider, and custom CLI tools such as Pi — same hotkey, same voice commands. Switch agents mid-session with your voice.
Get started
Install as a service
Run the installer above — Dictare creates its managed runtime, starts at login, preloads STT models, and waits silently in the background.
Launch your agent
Run dictare agent my-project and start speaking. Claude Code — and all your favourite AI coding agents — executes. That's it.
Switch agents on the fly
Say "agent personal" or "agent work" mid-session to switch to any connected session.
Voice triggers are configurable and can be scoped by language.
Works with
Start talking to your code.
Open source, free forever. Built for developers who think faster than they type.