For developers
Talk to Claude Code, and let it listen to your calls
Smalt is a Mac app for dictation and meeting notes. For developers it does two extra things: it pastes long prompts into your terminal as fast as you can say them, and it streams your calls to Claude Code over MCP so Claude can answer while people are still talking.
Free · Apple Silicon · macOS 14.4 or later
Dictate prompts, not just emails
Hold ⌥, describe the change you want, let go. The words land at the cursor in Terminal, Ghostty, VS Code, Xcode or anything else, and your clipboard is put back. Speech is recognized on your Mac's Neural Engine with Parakeet v3, so nothing is uploaded and it works offline.
Claude Code reads the meeting as it happens
Smalt runs a small MCP server on a local socket. Connect it once:
claude mcp add --scope user smalt -- "/Applications/Smalt.app/Contents/MacOS/Smalt" --mcpDuring a call, the /smalt-live-assistant skill watches the transcript, decides which questions are worth answering, searches the folders you name, and sends an answer card back to your screen. In a second Claude Code chat you can ask "what have we decided so far?" and get an answer from the live transcript.
- Smalt streams lines and shows cards. It runs no model and makes no network call of its own for this.
- Claude does the thinking, on your Claude plan, with whatever it can already reach: your repo, your notes, your docs.
- Claude Desktop works too, with one config entry.
Notes you can grep
Every meeting ends as a Markdown file in ~/Documents/Smalt: summary, decisions, action items and the full transcript with times. Point the skill at that folder and your past meetings become part of what Claude can answer from.
Questions
Does Smalt send my meeting to a server when I use Claude Code?
Smalt itself sends nothing. It serves the transcript to Claude Code over a local Unix socket. Claude Code then works like it always does, with your Claude plan.
Which Claude apps work?
Claude Code and Claude Desktop, through Smalt's local MCP server.
Can I dictate into the terminal?
Yes. Dictation pastes into whatever app is in front, including Terminal, iTerm, Ghostty, VS Code and Xcode, and puts your clipboard back afterwards.
Do I need an API key?
Not for dictation or meeting notes, which run on your Mac. The Claude Code skill that watches meetings uses a TypeSafe key to spot questions.