Superwhisper is a talk-to-text app for your Mac that speeds up my development workflow tremendously.
So you can imagine a world where basically you're just talking to your computer and it is listening to you kind of ramble on and then it takes what you say, and feeds it into whatever tool you're using. Then that downstream tool can then executes those commands or send that text or write that email.
That's how superwhisperer[1] superwhisper works.
It's a game changer for any knowledge worker. You can really crank out ideas when you're not slowly clacking away at your keys.
I'm glad you asked. So my process is basically I have superwhisper bound to my keyboards caps lock + a key and I'm using karabiner to map caps lock to a hyper key. I have another post on that if you're interested just go search on the blog.
So when I hit the caps lock and a key, it pops open superwhisper, then I dictate what I'm trying to do, or the message I'm trying to send to somebody, and then it will automatically paste that in once I hit caps lock and A again into the focused text area that I'm currently in. For example, this could be inside of social media, it could be inside of cursor, it could be inside of Claude's desktop app, it could be in into Claude code, it could be into the terminal, wherever. It will automatically transcribe everything, and a really good accurate transcription might I add, and then paste that into the focused box.
TLDR; Wherever your focus is, the text is pasted in.
Watch John's video on how it works
Superwhisper is free to use. I think it's using local models or something. I'm not sure how it's free. It gives you a certain amount of transcription power, I think five hours a day, and I don't think I've ever tipped over that. They do have paid plans. I'm not sure what the difference is, to be honest, but it's a fantastic product, and I think it is actually worth paying for.
But go ahead and check it out, and I hope this helps you create more stuff, prompt more things, build more awesome.
PS. This entire post was written using superwhisper just talking to my computer with a couple minor tweaks here and there. For example, funnily enough, it output superwhisperer when I said its name. Lol.