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How to Use Dictation on Claude Mobile

A quick guide to speaking your prompts instead of typing them in the Claude app for iOS and Android.

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This guide shows you how to speak your prompts instead of typing them in the Claude app, using dictation on iOS and Android. It takes about 2 minutes, including first-time setup.

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● Microphone icon tap to start speaking Arrow icon tap to send X icon tap to cancel

What you'll need

  • The Claude app installed on iOS or Android.
  • You must be signed in to your Claude account.
  • Your plan doesn't matter — per the official Help Center article, dictation is available to all users on Free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.

Quick terms

  • Dictation — a feature that automatically converts your speech into text in the chat input field.
  • Prompt — the question or instruction you send to Claude.
  • Speech Input Language — the setting that controls which language dictation listens for.

Step-by-step

  1. Open Claude for iOS or Android.
  2. Start a new chat.
  3. Tap the microphone icon on the right side of the chat input field.
  4. If this is your first time using dictation, you'll be asked to select your preferred language. You can change this later in Settings.
  5. Speak your prompt out loud.
  6. Tap the arrow icon to send it. To cancel without sending, tap the X icon instead.

Success looks like this: your spoken prompt automatically appears as text in the chat window, and once sent, Claude responds in text format.

Changing your language settings

Initials icon top right → Speech Input Language → Pick language from dropdown
  1. Tap your initials icon in the upper right corner of the screen.
  2. Select Speech Input Language.
  3. Choose your preferred language from the dropdown.

Supported languages

Per the official Help Center article, dictation currently supports these languages:

  • English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

If your language isn't on this list, it isn't supported yet.

Common sticking points & fixes

  • Is my voice recording saved? No. Per the official documentation, after converting your speech to text, the audio recording is deleted, and it isn't used to train Claude's models.
  • I picked the wrong language the first time. Follow the “Changing your language settings” steps above — initials icon → Speech Input Language → pick the correct one.
  • Note: the language screen only appears the first time you use dictation, so choose carefully then — it determines how well your speech is recognized afterward.

Where to go next

Once you're comfortable with dictation, the Claude mobile app also offers other hands-free ways to work, like voice mode for spoken conversations or iOS shortcuts and widgets. Check the official Claude Help Center for related articles.

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