Copy That
Voice dictation · Kiro
Voice dictation for Kiro.
Kiro CLI can take voice; the Kiro IDE chat can’t. Copy That works in both: press one button on your iPhone or Apple Watch, talk, and your prompt or spec idea is pasted into Kiro on your Mac.
kiro-cli — ~/auth-service
>Create a spec for passwordless email login in the auth service, then generate the tasks but don’t start implementing yet.
Copy that. Pasted into Kiro
Kiro CLI has voice mode: /voice, or hold Space at the prompt, transcribed locally with Whisper. The Kiro IDE chat has no microphone or dictation; requests for it are open (#57, #11527).
As of October 2026.
- Voice in the Kiro IDE chat, which has no microphone.
- The same button for Kiro CLI, the IDE and every other app.
- Transcribed on your Mac with Whisper, so no audio goes to a speech service and there’s no speech API key to set up.
- One button on your phone or watch instead of a hotkey, and you can talk from across the room.
- Push.
One button on your Apple Watch or iPhone.
- Talk.
Say the prompt, anywhere, on any network.
- Paste.
Your Mac transcribes it and pastes it into Kiro.
- Does Copy That work with Kiro?
- Yes. Copy That pastes your transcribed words into whatever app is in front on your Mac, so it works with Kiro with no plugin or setup inside Kiro.
- Does Kiro have voice input?
- Kiro CLI does: /voice or hold Space, transcribed on your machine with Whisper. The Kiro IDE chat has no built-in dictation.
- Can I dictate specs to the Kiro IDE?
- Yes, with Copy That: it pastes your transcribed words into the Kiro chat or any editor field.
- Do my iPhone and Mac need to be on the same Wi-Fi?
- No. Recordings go through your own private iCloud, so your phone can be on cellular in a café while your Mac is at home. The Mac just needs to be awake and online.
- Where is my voice transcribed?
- On your Mac, with Whisper. Audio passes through your own iCloud account and is never sent to a speech-to-text service.
- What does it cost?
- The iPhone and Mac apps are free. The Apple Watch app is a one-time $4.99. There is no subscription.
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