# Voice dictation for developers

> Most of what developers write isn't code - it's PR descriptions, bug reports, Slack threads, Linear tickets, and Cursor / Claude Code prompts. ParrotPad is a global push-to-talk that pastes clean text into any of them.

## Pain points it solves
- **Re-prompting Cursor/Claude Code all day** - speak the brief at speaking pace, paste it in the Composer or terminal
- **Slow PR descriptions and Linear tickets** - three sentences spoken in 10 seconds beats a paragraph typed in 5 minutes
- **"Kubernetes" becoming "coober nettys"** - drop your stack into the personal dictionary; sent to the STT engine as keyword hints

## Where developers use ParrotPad most
- Cursor / Claude Code / Copilot Chat - prompting
- GitHub & GitLab - PR descriptions, code review comments
- Linear / Jira / Notion - tickets, specs, design docs
- Slack - async standups, replies to threads
- Email - replies to recruiters, vendors, "quick favours"

## Dictionary samples for the developer crowd
useState, Kubernetes, GraphQL, OkLCH, TanStack, pnpm, tRPC, Postgres

## Pairs well with
- [Voice for Cursor](/voice-for/cursor.md) - Composer, Chat, Cmd+K at speaking pace
- [Voice for Claude & Claude Code](/voice-for/claude.md) - the CLI and Claude.ai

## Pricing
- Free: 5,000 words/week (plenty for a few prompts a day)
- Parrot Pro: $10/month or $96/year unlimited