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Speech-to-Text for Coding, VS Code & Terminal

Dictate code comments, docstrings, regex explanations, commit messages, and CLI commands at 150+ WPM directly inside VS Code, Cursor, and your terminal.

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The problem

Typing out verbose documentation, docstrings, and Git commit explanations breaks your coding flow and slows down development velocity.

With Dicty

Speak your code logic out loud. Dicty formats technical acronyms, camelCase/snake_case variable names, and code blocks directly at your editor cursor.

How it works

Simple 4-step process.

Speech-to-Text for Coding, VS Code & Terminal

Trigger in your IDE

Press ⌥ Space inside VS Code, Cursor, Xcode, or your terminal.

Explain your code

Dictate function logic, type signatures, or pull request summaries conversationally.

Smart code formatting

Dicty intelligently formats code blocks, parameters, return types, and Markdown comments.

Zero context switching

The structured text types directly at your cursor without leaving your editor.

Codebase aware

Accurately parses programming terms, libraries, and technical jargon without typos.

100% on-device privacy

Your proprietary source code and comments never leave your local hardware.

Zero latency Metal GPU

Sub-200ms speech recognition ensures your flow state remains unbroken.

auth_handler.ts

/**
 * Validates incoming OAuth bearer tokens against Redis session cache.
 * @param token - Raw JWT token from Authorization header
 * @returns Decoded user session payload or throws UnauthorizedError
 */
export async function validateSession(token: string): Promise<UserSession> {
  // Spoken: "check if token is cached, otherwise fetch from db and set ttl to 1 hour"
  const cached = await redis.get(`session:${token}`);
}