# Voice input for Claude and Claude Code

> Claude is where serious work happens - long-context prompts on Claude.ai, multi-file briefs in Claude Code CLI, MCP tool wiring, Projects. ParrotPad is one global hotkey that pushes clean dictation into Claude.ai, the Claude Code terminal, and the API console.

## Pain points it solves
- **Claude Code lives in your terminal** - typing a multi-paragraph brief into a terminal prompt is brutal. Hold the hotkey, narrate the brief - "find the rate limiter, add per-user backoff, write a Pest test" - release. The whole instruction lands in the Claude Code prompt at once.
- **Claude is at its best with a long, carefully-framed prompt** - speak the framing, context, constraint, and ask. ParrotPad punctuates and posts it. Same hotkey on Claude.ai, the Workbench, or Claude Code.
- **No intermediary LLM rewriting your prompt** - filler stripped, punctuation added, that's it. Claude reads what you actually said.

## Where Claude users live
- Claude Code CLI - feature briefs, refactor instructions, debugging context, "explain this file"
- Claude.ai - long-form prompts, Projects, system instructions
- API console & Workbench - prompt engineering, eval prompts, multi-turn tests
- MCP server briefs - dictating what the tool should do in natural language
- Claude Projects - filling the knowledge base, one spoken paragraph at a time
- Slack / Linear / GitHub - the writing around the work Claude Code just did

## Dictionary samples
Claude, Claude Code, Sonnet, Opus, Haiku, MCP, tool use, Anthropic

## Pairs well with
- [Voice for ChatGPT](/voice-for/chatgpt.md) - if you switch between providers
- [Voice for Cursor](/voice-for/cursor.md) - if you also use Cursor's agent mode

## Pricing
- Free: 5,000 words/week
- Parrot Pro: $10/month or $96/year unlimited