What is SayDart?
Dictionary learning remembers your corrections. SayDart automatically learns the words you correct and the ones you use most, so every session needs fewer edits and sounds more like you.
SayDart is AI voice input for Windows and Mac (beta), built around a personal Dictionary that learns your vocabulary. Cloud learning, on by default, suggests terms from your dictation and edits, so your names, product terms and abbreviations are spelled your way, and your Dictionary syncs across the computers you sign in to. It is guidance, not an accuracy guarantee, and you can turn learning off in Dictionary > Learning settings. Press a shortcut in almost any app, talk, and clean, punctuated text lands at your cursor, with filler words and restarts removed. SayDart Assistant and voice translation are built in.
For coding prompts, accuracy starts with the audio. A close, clear microphone gives SayDart cleaner speech to work with, and SayDart then removes filler words, tidies punctuation and spells the product and library names in your Dictionary, including terms cloud learning suggests, your way. Together they get a prompt into Cursor, Claude Code or Codex with less editing. Review it before you press Enter.
SayDart is free to start. Pro is unlimited for $12/month, billed yearly ($144), or $15 month to month. Prices exclude tax. SayDart is a desktop app: it has no mobile app, no Linux version and no offline mode.
What push-to-talk means when you code by voice
Coders usually want two things: the microphone should hear only the prompt, and starting or stopping should take one key press. You can get that with a keyboard shortcut, a mute switch, or both.
SayDart is voice typing for Windows and Mac (beta) and starts from a keyboard shortcut: Right Alt on Windows and Right Option on Mac by default, which you can change in Settings > Shortcuts. A small capsule with a waveform shows that it is listening. You do not need a microphone with a talk button.
Microphone options for coding at a desk
| Option | Why it works | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Wired headset with a boom microphone and mute switch | The mic stays near your mouth, so it hears you more than your fans and keyboard. The mute switch gives you a physical off position | Comfort over a long coding session |
| USB microphone with a mute button | Easy to plug in; a tap mutes it between prompts | Place it close to your mouth. A mechanical keyboard and fans next to a desk mic reach it |
| Laptop microphone | Nothing to buy; fine in a quiet room | It is far from your mouth, so noise and echo come through |
| Keyboard or macro pad key that sends your SayDart shortcut | A dedicated physical key to start and stop dictation | Test it first: it depends on how the device sends the shortcut key |
Set up SayDart for coding prompts
- Download SayDart, install it and sign in with your email.
- Open Settings > Voice & translation > Microphone and choose your headset or USB microphone. Allow microphone access when asked.
- Add repository, library and product names to Dictionary, for example useEffect or PostgreSQL, so they come out your way.
- Click into the prompt box in Cursor, Claude Code or your browser chat, press your voice shortcut and say the goal, the context, what must not change and how to check the result.
- Review the text, then press Enter yourself. For terminal agents, dictate into a notes field first, review, then paste into the terminal.
Habits that make hands-on-keyboard dictation work
- Say the goal first, then the context, the constraints and how to check the result.
- Paste exact code, file paths, errors and logs instead of reading them out.
- Mute or stop between prompts so side conversations are not typed into your editor.
- Read the prompt once before you press Enter, especially names, numbers and every "don't".
- Select a rambling prompt and ask the assistant to structure it before sending it.
What SayDart does not do
SayDart is not a plugin for Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. It does not read your editor or repository, tag files, run commands or submit prompts, and its recognition runs in the cloud, so it needs an internet connection.
Pricing
SayDart is free to start. Pro is unlimited for $12/month, billed yearly ($144), or $15 month to month. Prices exclude tax.
Talk your next prompt
Plug in your microphone, choose it in Settings and dictate your next prompt. Free to start.