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Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?

1 points by TomEleff ↗ HN
Curious if folks are using dictation with coding agents for speach to text? Anyone completely hands-free with spoken responses from the agent as well? Anyone experimenting with tools to solve this? Anyone creating tools to solve this?

Looks like Claude Code CLI and Aider support voice dictation, Codex had it but dropped it, other CLIs like open code, copilot CLI all don't have it.

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anoojb
I prefer using Handy(https://handy.computer) with these CLI coding agents. I prefer to decouple certain things from these AI companies.
TomEleff
Looks like it solves the speech to text piece but not text to speech? Neat tool either way.

I am looking for any examples of people fully working with their coding agent CLI via voice alone.

RationPhantoms
Others should check out Fluid Voice as it seems privacy focused with a bit more enhancements like custom dictionary.
attentive
So privacy focused that it sends telemetry, unlike handy.
chachachainsaw
I’m a heavy user of wisprflow for speech to text and prefer html output for richer understanding. Unfortunately I don’t use a text to speech with a CLI, but want to follow this thread because I’m interested in seeing what’s available!
arach
I think we're close to the point where local models can make this economically viable as an alternative to hands off XAI/OAI/ANT

You need rapid good enough rapid turn response + rapid good enough TTS in order to make it economically for someone who's not blending it into a more compute heavy pricing model

Have you looked into it? Are you familiar with Pipecat https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat - they put out interesting demos frequently