For Developers
Speak the prose. Type the code.
Most of a developer's day isn't syntax — it's prompts, PR descriptions, reviews, docs, and messages. Flunkey dictates all of it at 150 words per minute, in any IDE or terminal.
Typing is the bottleneck, not thinking.
AI coding assistants reward verbose, contextual prompts — but typing them is slow. Meanwhile PR descriptions, reviews, and docs pile up because writing them feels like work. Voice removes the bottleneck without changing your stack.
- Verbose Cursor, Copilot, and ChatGPT prompts typed at 40 wpm instead of spoken at 150
- Thin PR descriptions and rushed review comments because typing them drags
- Docs, ADRs, and commit messages postponed until 'later' that never comes
- Wrists and hands absorbing 8+ hours of daily keystrokes (see RSI note below)
Three jobs Flunkey takes off your plate.
Prompts that write the code
Dictate long, context-rich prompts into Cursor, Copilot Chat, or the terminal. Verbose prompting is what makes AI assistants actually deliver.
“In the auth module, extract token refresh into its own service with retries and add unit tests for expiry edge cases”
PRs and reviews people read
Speak detailed PR descriptions and thorough review comments in under a minute. Better descriptions, better reviews, faster merges.
“This PR refactors the user service for testability, adds error handling on the sync path, and needs eyes on the migration”
Docs, commits, standups
READMEs, docstrings, commit messages, Slack updates — the prose surrounding code, dictated without leaving your editor.
“fix authentication timeout under load by pooling connections and backing off retries”
Your hotkeys, mapped to the work.
Dictate anywhere
Prompts, comments, and messages pasted at your cursor in VS Code, Cursor, terminals, and browsers.
How it works
F9Ask mid-debug
Ask about an error or API without tab-switching; answers stream into the side overlay.
How it works
F10Tighten the prose
Select a rambling draft and say 'shorten' or 'more formal' before posting.
How it works
Frequently asked questions.
Honestly: it's built for prose around code — prompts, comments, docs, messages. Brackets and camelCase are faster typed; dictate the sentence, type the identifier. Pair it with your keyboard, not instead of it.
Anywhere you can type: VS Code, Cursor, JetBrains, Vim, terminals, browsers, Slack, GitHub. Per-app paste profiles tune behavior across 26 apps.
Many developers use dictation to cut daily keystrokes by 30-50% — PRs, messages, and docs go entirely to voice. It's an ergonomic aid, not medical treatment; see a professional for pain.
Add services, modules, and library names to the custom Dictionary once — Flunkey injects the relevant terms into transcription, plus grammar polish before paste.
No. There are no Flunkey servers. Audio and text go directly from your PC to the provider whose key you configured, and history stays in local AppData until you wipe it.
Flunkey itself is free and MIT open-source. You pay only your own provider usage (Groq's fast tier is a popular starting point).
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