Ask HN: Has anyone tried using voice to work with Claude Code or other agents
1 prmph 3 6/26/2025, 11:49:47 AM
How did it go? Did it work reasonably well? Was it a more productive experience?
This is important to me because typing out even moderately long commands at the Claude Code terminal starts to get a bit tiring rather quick
It's like talking to somebody who has the ears of a 120-year old and the language aptitude of a 1.5-year old. I have to slow down and enunciate v-e-r-y c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y and suppress all the "umms" and "aaahs" by thinking ahead careful what I'm going to say ahead of time so I don't have to pause in the middle of talking which will cause the thing to finish processing.
On stage you have to enunciate better than usual and use muscular energy in your vocal track to project but you can get emotional, you can get loud. Talking to Alexa is really draining because you have to work hard at holding your voice back and being really conventional, if you have any pronunciations that are all unusual (I've been told by speech therapists I speech "Pennsylvania Dutch") you have to suppress it. And after all that I'm going to have to make corrections. So I find it tiring to even ask Siri to dictate a note for me.