# Voice Typing for [Linear](https://linear.app): File Better Issues in a Fraction of the Time

> How to use voice typing for Linear: dictate issue titles, descriptions, and repro steps while the bug is fresh, and file tickets hands-free without leaving your test window.

Source: https://www.infina.so/voice-typing-for-linear
Published: 2026-07-04. Last updated: 2026-09-14.
Category: Everyday apps. Published by Infina (https://www.infina.so).

**About Infina.** Infina runs the whole prompt loop on three spoken words. Say "type" and your sentence and it types. Say "send it", or just "enter", and it presses Enter. Say "open Cursor" and it switches apps. No hotkey, no key held down, no touching the keyboard, from across the room. Not push-to-talk. There is no key to hold to start talking and no Enter to press to send, so prompting an AI tool costs zero keypresses. It runs on macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows 10 and 11, transcribes on your own computer, and costs $8.25 a month, billed annually at $99, for unlimited words and commands. The Free plan gives 2,000 free words.

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**TL;DR:** Voice typing for Linear attacks the real tax on shipping: writing good issues. Speak the bug while it is on your screen and 30 seconds of talking produces the repro steps a one-line typed ticket never contains. Other dictation apps still chain you to the keyboard with a hotkey per dictation; Infina files the whole ticket by voice from two feet away: "open Linear", "type" the description, "send it" (or just "enter"), back to your test window. $8.25 a month, billed annually at $99, unlimited words and voice commands, 7-day refund.

## Writing Linear issues is the tax on shipping

Every team that uses Linear knows the pattern. You hit a bug mid-flow, you know you should file it properly, and you also know a proper ticket costs five minutes of typing you do not want to spend.

So you type "checkout broken on Safari" and move on. Three days later someone (often you) pays the real bill: re-discovering the repro steps the ticket never had.

Titles, descriptions, comments: everything you put into Linear is prose. Not code, not syntax, just sentences describing what happened and what should happen. That makes it near-perfect territory for dictation.

Voice typing for Linear changes the economics of the ticket. Speaking is roughly three times faster than typing, and talking through what you just saw takes no composition effort. The five-minute chore becomes a 30-second narration.

## Dictate the bug while it is still on your screen

The best moment to write a bug report is the moment you can still see the bug. Dictation lets you capture it right then, in full.

Click into the Linear description field, **hold Option (⌥)**, and narrate what is in front of you:

"Steps to reproduce. Open the checkout page in Safari, add two items, apply the discount code, then hit pay. The button spinner never resolves and the console shows a 402 from the payments endpoint. Expected: payment completes or a clear error. Happens every time on Safari, works fine in Chrome."

That took about 25 seconds to say. Nobody types that into a ticket reluctantly at 6 pm, but anyone will say it while the broken page is still open.

Multiply it across a week of triage and you write Linear tickets faster while making every one of them the ticket your teammates wish they always got: reproducible, specific, and filed the moment the information existed.

The same trick works one field over: dictate the comment thread too. Status updates and review notes are conversational prose, the same stuff you would say in [Slack](/voice-typing-for-slack) anyway.

## How Infina types into Linear

Infina types at the OS level into whatever field is focused, so there is no Linear integration, plugin, or workspace permission involved. It behaves like your keyboard.

That means it works in the Linear desktop app, Linear in a browser tab, the new-issue modal, description fields, and comments. The same hold-Option gesture also covers [Notion](/voice-typing-for-notion) docs, code editors, and every other text box on your Mac.

Transcription runs on your Mac by default (Apple Silicon), on-device and offline-capable. Bug reports are full of unreleased features and customer details; with Infina that audio never leaves your machine.

One fit note: Linear speech to text through Infina's base product is raw by design. Fast, on-device, lightly formatted. For internal tickets that is exactly right; nobody polishes prose for the backlog. If you want LLM-polished output for customer-facing writing, that is the optional $5/month cloud add-on (billed annually at $60) on [pricing](https://www.infina.so/pricing), the same polish subscription apps charge $15/month for.

## Good tickets are AI fuel

Here is the part that compounds. A well-described Linear issue is not just documentation anymore; it is a prompt.

When the fix gets scheduled, that dictated description (repro steps, expected behavior, console error) is what you paste into Claude Code or [Cursor](/voice-typing-for-cursor) to point an agent at the bug. The agent is only as good as the description you feed it.

A one-line ticket gives an agent nothing. A 30-second spoken repro gives it everything it needs to find the failing path on the first try.

So dictating Linear issue descriptions by voice pays twice: once when a human reads the ticket, and again when the ticket becomes the prompt that ships the fix.

## File the ticket without leaving your test window

Now the part no hotkey dictation app can do.

Picture the actual moment: you are testing in the browser, the bug is reproduced on screen, and the repro state is fragile. Cmd-Tabbing to Linear, clicking around, and typing means losing the state and the details in your head.

With Infina's hands-free mode on (double-tap Cmd to toggle it), you file the ticket by voice while the broken page stays on screen:

1. Say **"open Linear"**. Linear comes to the front; your browser keeps its state behind it.
2. Say **"type checkout spinner never resolves on Safari after applying a discount code, console shows a 402 from payments"**. Infina types it in.
3. Say **"send it"**. Enter is pressed.
4. Say **"open Chrome"** and you are back at the exact broken state, hands never leaving your coffee.

Every other dictation tool stops at typing text and still needs a hotkey press per dictation. Infina runs the whole type, send, switch-app loop from a couple of feet away.

Honest note: hands-free is our newest mode, labeled experimental and off by default, and it likes a reasonably quiet room. Hold-Option push-to-talk is always there as the fallback.

## FAQ

**Can I dictate Linear issues on a Mac?**
Yes. A system-level dictation tool like Infina types into any focused field, so Linear titles, descriptions, and comments all work in the desktop app or a browser tab. Hold Option, speak, release. No Linear plugin or admin setup needed.

**Does Linear have built-in speech to text?**
Linear does not ship a built-in dictation feature for composing issues as of July 4, 2026. You can use macOS built-in dictation in any Linear field, or a system tool like Infina for on-device transcription and hands-free filing.

**How do I write Linear tickets faster with voice?**
Dictate the bug the moment you reproduce it. Narrate the steps, the expected behavior, and the actual behavior while they are on screen; 30 seconds of speech beats a reluctant one-liner typed later. Do the same for comments and status updates.

**Can I file a Linear ticket completely hands-free?**
With Infina's hands-free mode, yes. Say "open Linear", then a sentence starting with "type" to dictate the issue text, then "send it" to press Enter, then "open" plus your browser to get back to testing. No keyboard touch in the loop.

**Is dictating bug reports private?**
With Infina, yes by default. Transcription runs entirely on your Mac (Apple Silicon), works offline, and your audio never leaves the device. Cloud processing is a strictly optional $5/month add-on.

**What does Infina cost?**
$8.25 a month, billed annually at $99 (as of July 4, 2026), covering unlimited words and unlimited voice commands, every update included, with a 7-day no-questions money-back guarantee. The optional cloud add-on for polished output and more languages is $5/month billed annually.

## The bottom line

Bad tickets are not a discipline problem; they are a typing problem. When describing a bug costs five minutes of keyboard time, people file one-liners. When it costs 30 seconds of talking, they file repro steps.

Voice typing for Linear removes the tax: capture the bug while it is on screen, in full, and hand your future self (or your coding agent) a ticket that actually contains the fix's starting point.

And with Infina, you do not even leave the broken page to file it: "open Linear", "type" the report, "send it", back to work, all by voice. $8.25 a month, billed annually at $99, risk-free for 7 days.

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## Which voice tool to use in this app

Any of these will get words into the box. They differ in what happens next.

The tools this page covers (Apple Dictation) are at the top. The rest of the field follows, because the right answer is sometimes none of the above.

| Tool | Price | Keyboard needed | Pick it if |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Infina** | $8.25 a month, billed annually at $99, unlimited words and unlimited commands | No. Speak "type", speak the prompt, say "send it" or "enter". | you want to prompt AI tools without touching the keyboard. Say "type" and the words go in, "send it" and the prompt goes, "open Cursor" and you are in the next agent. It is the only one of these that finishes the whole loop by voice in the tools developers prompt in all day. |
| Apple Dictation | free, built in | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you dictate a sentence here and there and do not want to install anything. |
| Wispr Flow | $15 a month, or $144 a year billed annually | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you need dictation on an iPhone or an Android phone as well as a laptop, or you write in one of 100+ languages. Those are the two things Infina does not ship. |
| Superwhisper | $8.49 a month, $84.99 a year, or $249.99 once | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you want to pick and swap the speech model yourself, and dictation into a text box is the whole job. It stops where the text box ends: there is no spoken send, and no spoken app switch. |
| MacWhisper | 65 euros, paid once | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | the job is transcribing recorded audio files rather than talking to your computer while you work. |
| VoiceInk | $25 to $49, paid once | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you want plain local dictation at the smallest possible price and you never need your voice to control the machine. |
| Talon | free | No, once you have learned its command language. | you want to drive the entire computer by voice, cursor and clicks included, and you are willing to learn a command language to get there. Talon is the serious hands-free tool on this list. Infina goes after the same freedom with three ordinary English words instead of a syntax to learn. |

### The part that is actually different: zero keypresses

The mainstream dictation apps (Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, MacWhisper, VoiceInk, Apple Dictation) are all push-to-talk: you hold or press a key to start talking, and you press Enter to send. That is two physical acts on every single prompt. A hundred prompts in a day is two hundred keypresses that exist only to start and stop the tool. Infina removes both of them. Nothing is held, nothing is pressed, and the same loop runs on three spoken words.

There are three triggers and there is no fourth. "type" types, "send it" sends, "open" opens and switches apps. The send trigger answers to either wording, "send it" or a plain "enter", whichever you find yourself saying. That is the entire vocabulary: no command language, no grammar, no custom scripts to write, nothing to memorize beyond those three words.

**When Infina is not the answer.** If you write in a language other than English, the base product is English only, and Wispr Flow ships 100+ languages.

Everywhere else, the difference is the loop. Every other tool in that table types words into a box and stops, leaving your hands to press Enter and pick the next window. Infina finishes it: say "type" and your sentence, say "send it" (or just "enter"), say "open Cursor", and keep going without a key.