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How I got reliable speech-to-text in Telegram and WhatsApp (and let Claude Code set it up)

How I got reliable speech-to-text in Telegram and WhatsApp (and let Claude Code set it up)

via Dev.toOndrej Machala

I use Claude Code for most of my development now. A lot of the communication around it happens in Telegram. Code reviews, quick questions, longer explanations. I type all of it on my phone. At some point I started noticing how much time I spend on that. Long messages, detailed replies, things that would take 30 seconds to say and three minutes to type. iOS has built-in dictation. In Telegram it cuts off mid-sentence, drops names, and resets without warning. I stopped using it. I looked at other voice apps. Most of them are recorder-and-paste workflows, or Mac-first tools with an iOS afterthought. None of them put a mic button in the Telegram compose field, which is the only thing I actually wanted. What I built instead I ended up building Diction. It's an iOS keyboard extension. You switch to it in any app, tap the mic in whatever text field you're in, speak, and the text appears there. No switching apps. No recording and pasting. Works in Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, anything that ac

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