When typing interrupts the flow
When you're in a good flow state, typing a long prompt can interrupt the work. A voice-first draft is one way to capture the idea before refining it.
A spoken draft can be up to 5x faster than typing at a 75 wpm baseline. AiType typically completes transcription and cleanup in about 250 ms; timing varies by device, connection, language, and text length. Review the prompt before sending.
Where developers use AiType
🤖 Cursor / Codex / Copilot prompts
Hold the shortcut, describe the task or feature in plain English, and release. Review the cleaned draft before pasting or sending it to the agent.
📝 Commit messages
After making changes, hold the shortcut and describe what you changed and why. Review the cleaned draft carefully before using it in git commit -m "...".
🔀 PR descriptions
Open the PR form, hold the shortcut, and talk through the change, what it fixes, and any testing notes. Review names, commands, links, and test details before submitting.
🐛 Bug reports and issue descriptions
Reproduce a bug, then speak the reproduction steps and observed versus expected behaviour while it is fresh. AI cleanup can help structure the first draft into coherent paragraphs.
💬 Code comments and docstrings
Position your cursor above a function, hold the shortcut, and describe what the function does. Review the cleaned draft for technical accuracy before using it as a comment or docstring.
📧 Technical emails and Slack messages
Any written communication that requires thought but not code. Architecture decisions, incident summaries, onboarding notes, RFC drafts.
Example: dictating a Cursor prompt
"um so the API is returning 429s when we hit the rate limit um the client is not handling that correctly it just crashes uh I need you to add retry logic with exponential backoff up to three retries and a max delay of 30 seconds"
# Illustrative cleaned output:
The API is returning 429s when we hit the rate limit, and the client isn't handling that correctly — it just crashes. Add retry logic with exponential backoff, up to 3 retries, with a max delay of 30 seconds.
In this illustrative example, the cleanup pass removes filler words and improves sentence structure. Always review technical instructions before sending them to an agent.
Works in supported editors and tools
AiType runs at the OS level rather than as an editor extension. Examples to test in your own setup include:
- Cursor, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs
- Terminal / shell (for commit messages, inline comments)
- GitHub.com, GitLab, Linear, Jira (in the browser)
- Slack, Discord, Notion, Confluence
- Other supported apps and text fields on Mac or Windows
The macro workflow: speak while you think
A useful developer pattern is narrating while you work. As you debug, speak what you are seeing. As you design a feature, speak the tradeoffs. AiType can turn that narration into a draft for an agent prompt, commit, or PR, ready for your review.
Try it for one week
Use the 14-day no-card desktop trial to compare voice-first and typed prompts in your own editors, then keep the workflow only if it helps.
Download AiType for Mac or Windows
Install AiType, configure the shortcut, and test it in the supported editors and text fields you use.