Dictate puts speech into whatever already has your cursor: a document, a terminal, a message box. There is no window to switch to and nothing to paste.
The speech model runs on your Mac. Your voice is never uploaded, so it works on a plane and it keeps working if this site disappears.
Built in Claude Code as a companion to Capture and Narrate — same principle across all three: the model runs locally, nothing you say or select ever leaves the machine.
- Native macOS app
- Runs fully on-device