# Voice dictated prompts

https://www.sanity.io/learn/course/code-with-ai/voice-dictated-prompts.md

You may find it much faster and more natural to write prompts with your voice rather than your hands. Here's how I like to do it.

I can type over 100 words per minute. I've been proud of that for a long time, to the point of—for better or worse—considering it part of my personality.

But there's just something about writing prompts that I find so laborious. It feels like micromanagement. Having to write out a task in full instead of just _doing_ it.

Fortunately, I have found a way to reduce the friction of writing prompts: I don’t write them at all; I say them.

In fact, I barely “wrote” any of this course. The words you are reading right now, I spoke into my microphone and cleaned up with AI. What a time to be alive.

## Install Superwhisper

While there are many voice dictation tools available, and your system likely comes with one built in, I have found Superwhisper to be an excellent choice. It's free to try.

1. **Download** and install [Superwhisper](https://superwhisper.com/).

## Speak a prompt

1. **Open** a new Chat in “Agent” mode and speak something like the following prompt

```text:Prompt
The title of this project is AI Powered, but it's just a blog for my local bakery. Can you please update any references to AI in this project to My Bakery?
```

The agent should successfully review the project’s configuration files, including `package.json` and `sanity.config.ts`, and update the existing “AI-powered” value in both.

### Speech-to-text alternatives

If for some reason you're not happy with Superwhisper, there are alternatives that will perform similarly.

* [VS Code Speech](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.vscode-speech) is an extension by Microsoft for use in VS Code
* [Wispr Flow](https://wisprflow.ai/) is a similar OS application with some additional features

Now we’re more comfortable with prompting, let’s add some guardrails to the results.