# Voice Typing for Warp: Talk to the AI Terminal Hands-Free on Mac

> How voice typing for Warp works: dictate natural-language prompts into Warp's Agent Mode with on-device dictation, what Warp's built-in voice input does, and the hands-free loop no mic button gives you.

Source: https://www.infina.so/voice-typing-for-warp
Published: 2026-07-04. Last updated: 2026-09-14.
Category: Workflow. 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:** Warp is the terminal that speaks English, so voice typing for Warp is the most natural pairing in your toolbox: say the prompt, let Agent Mode run it. Warp ships a built-in voice input (checked July 4, 2026), but it is cloud-transcribed, lives only inside Warp, and still needs a hotkey or a mic-button click every time. Infina works in every app on your Mac, transcribes on-device by default, costs $8.25 a month, billed annually at $99 (at the time of writing), and runs the loop no built-in mic button can: lean back two feet from the desk, eat lunch, say "type fix the failing migration and rerun it", say "send it" (or just "enter"), say "open Notes" to jot something down, then "open Warp" and keep going, all without touching a key.

**The workflow below assumes the tool can finish the loop. This is what that means.** Infina runs on three spoken triggers and there is no fourth. Say "type" and a sentence and it lands as typed text in whatever app is in front of you. Say "send it", or just "enter", and it presses Enter so the prompt actually goes. Say "open Cursor" or "open Slack" and your computer switches apps for you.

Nothing is held down and nothing is pressed. There is no push-to-talk key to find and no Enter key to reach for two hundred times a day, which is the part every other tool in this category leaves to your hands. Wispr Flow, Superwhisper and the rest all stop at inserting text, which leaves the two keypresses around every prompt exactly where they were.


## Warp already speaks English. Speak back.

[Warp](https://www.warp.dev) leaned into AI harder than any other terminal. As of July 4, 2026, its Agent Mode takes plain natural-language requests ("find what is eating disk space and clean it up"), runs multi-turn conversations, and can drive whole coding tasks, with multiple agent conversations open across tabs and panes.

Which means the thing you type into Warp all day is no longer `du -sh * | sort -h`. It is English sentences.

And English sentences are exactly what dictation is best at. You speak roughly three times faster than you type, so every Agent Mode prompt, every follow-up, every "no, keep the old config keys" correction is faster said than typed.

That logic applies to any terminal, and we cover the general case in [voice typing for terminal](/voice-typing-for-terminal). Warp is just the terminal where it pays off hardest, because Warp itself was built for natural language.

## Does Warp have voice input built in?

Yes. As of July 4, 2026, Warp includes a voice input option: a mic button in Agent Mode plus a configurable hotkey, with transcription powered by Wispr Flow in the cloud, per [Warp's official docs](https://docs.warp.dev/agents/voice). The docs note voice data is processed in real time rather than kept as a recording, and that voice usage has fair-use limits.

Credit where due: Warp adding a mic is a sign the whole industry knows prompts want to be spoken.

Here is what that built-in option leaves on the table, and why we built Infina differently:

| | Warp's built-in voice (checked July 4, 2026) | Infina |
|---|---|---|
| **Where it works** | Inside Warp's own input surfaces | Every app on your Mac: Warp, Cursor, browsers, Slack, docs |
| **Where audio goes** | Processed in the cloud by Wispr Flow | On-device by default; audio never leaves your Mac |
| **Trigger** | Mic button or hotkey, each time | Hold Option, or fully hands-free with no key at all |
| **Sending and switching** | Your hands | Say "send it", say "open [app]" |
| **Price model** | Bundled with Warp, subject to usage limits | Flat $8.25/month, billed annually at $99, unlimited words and voice commands, no usage limits |

If you only ever dictate into Warp, and you are happy with your audio going to the cloud, the built-in mic is fine. But your prompts do not stop at Warp's window edge, and neither should your dictation.

## Voice typing for Warp with Infina: two minutes to set up

Infina types at the OS level, so to Warp it looks exactly like your keyboard. No plugin, no integration, nothing to enable inside Warp itself.

1. **Install Infina** and grant the microphone and accessibility permissions it asks for.
2. Focus Warp's input, in Agent Mode or the classic prompt.
3. **Hold Option (⌥)**, speak your prompt, release. The words land at your cursor.

The output is raw by design: what you said is what gets typed, with no autocorrect layer "fixing" a branch name or a flag into something prettier. Transcription runs on your Mac's Neural Engine, works offline, and hits 95%+ accuracy on clear English speech.

One safety note that applies to any terminal voice input: dictation only types text. Nothing runs until you press Enter yourself, or deliberately say "send it" in hands-free mode. A misheard word just sits on the prompt line like a typo.

## The hands-free loop no mic button gives you

Every dictation option for Warp, including Warp's own, shares one assumption: you are sitting at the keyboard, pressing something for every utterance. Infina's hands-free mode drops that assumption, and this is the part no other tool does.

Double-tap Cmd (⌘) to toggle hands-free on (it ships off by default). Then, from 2 to 3 feet away:

1. Say a sentence starting with **"type"**: "type profile the build and tell me the slowest step". Infina types it into Warp.
2. Say **"send it"**. Infina presses Enter and the agent runs.
3. While it works, say **"open Notes"** to capture a thought, or **"open Terminal"** to feed a second agent session, then **"open Warp"** to come back.

Prompt, send, switch, repeat, with your hands on your lunch instead of the keyboard. Dictation apps and built-in mic buttons stop at typing text; Infina completes the whole loop by voice.

That loop is what makes running several agents at once practical instead of theoretical. We show the full multi-session workflow in [hands-free Claude Code](/hands-free-claude-code), and it drives [Codex](/voice-typing-for-codex) sessions exactly the same way, because Infina does not care which agent owns the focused window.

## Honest limits

- **English only in the base product.** The optional $5/month cloud add-on (billed annually at $60) adds more languages, sharper cloud transcription, and LLM-polished output, useful when the same app handles your emails and docs.
- **Mac and Windows, no phone app.** On a Mac the on-device models need Apple Silicon. Warp also runs on Linux, where Infina does not. See [Infina for Windows](/docs/windows).
- **Raw output by design.** Ideal for prompts and commands; for publishing prose you would want the add-on's polish.
- **Hands-free is our newest feature and labeled experimental.** It likes a reasonably quiet room. Hold-Option push-to-talk is the mature fallback that always works.

## FAQ

**Does Warp terminal have voice input?**
Yes, as of July 4, 2026 Warp includes a built-in voice option with a mic button in Agent Mode and a hotkey, transcribed in the cloud by Wispr Flow according to Warp's docs. It works only inside Warp; a system-wide tool like Infina dictates into Warp and every other app, on-device by default.

**How do I dictate to Warp with Infina?**
Focus Warp's input, hold Option, speak, release. Infina types at the OS level, so no Warp plugin or setting is needed. In hands-free mode you skip the key entirely: say "type" plus your prompt, then "send it".

**Is voice input to a terminal safe?**
Yes. Dictation only puts text on the prompt line; nothing executes until you press Enter or say "send it" on purpose. You review a spoken prompt exactly like a typed one.

**Does Infina send my Warp prompts to the cloud?**
No, not by default. Transcription runs entirely on your Mac's Neural Engine and works offline; your audio never leaves the device. Cloud processing is strictly an optional $5/month add-on you can ignore forever.

**Can I run Warp Agent Mode completely hands-free?**
Yes, that is Infina's signature loop. With hands-free mode on, say "type" plus your request, say "send it" to submit it, and say "open Warp" or "open [any app]" to switch windows by voice, from a couple of feet away.

**What does Infina cost compared to subscription dictation?**
$8.25 a month, billed annually at $99 (at the time of writing), flat, with unlimited words and voice commands and every update included, plus a 7-day money-back guarantee. Subscription dictation apps charge around $12 to $15 every month, which is $144 to $180 a year, and they transcribe in their cloud; Infina transcribes on your Mac, and the $5/month cloud add-on stays optional. Details on [pricing](https://www.infina.so/pricing).

## The bottom line

Warp bet the terminal on natural language, and it was right. The moment your terminal takes English, the fastest input for it is your voice.

Warp's built-in mic gets you part way: cloud transcription, inside one app, a button press per utterance. Voice typing for Warp with Infina gets you the whole thing: every app on your Mac, on-device and private by default, and a hands-free loop that types, sends, and switches windows while you lean back.

$8.25 a month, billed annually at $99 (at the time of writing), 7 days to prove it on your own Warp sessions, risk-free.

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## Picking the tool that fits this workflow

The workflow above assumes a tool that can finish the loop. Here is how the field lines up against it.

The tools this page covers (Wispr Flow) 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |

### 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 need dictation on an iPhone, an iPad, an Android phone or Linux, Infina is a Mac and Windows desktop app and there is no phone version. Wispr Flow covers phones.

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.