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Heard Power

Talk back to your agents, dictate anywhere, and ask Parrot.
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Heard Power closes the voice loop. It adds voice input with one key, hands-free dictation, Heard Parrot, custom vocabulary, and the iPhone companion to the managed Heard app.

One key: right ⌘

Right ⌘ is for dictation. Hold it, speak, and release. Speech is transcribed on your Mac, and Heard puts your words in one of three places:

  1. An agent you name. Start with the agent’s name, for example “Claude, run the tests again”, and Heard delivers it to that session. If two sessions match, Heard asks which one.
  2. The text field under your cursor. With your cursor in a text field, Heard types there, like dictation in any app. It never presses Enter.
  3. Your clipboard. With no text field under your cursor, Heard copies what you said so you can paste it.

Right ⌘ never starts a conversation with Heard Parrot. To talk to Parrot, say “Hey Parrot”. See Heard Parrot.

While you hold the key, a small card can show where your words are going. See On screen.

Talk to your agents

A message to an agent follows your listening mode. In Co-pilot and Focus it is typed into the agent’s input for you to review and send. In Companion it is sent after a short pause; press right ⌘ again during the pause to cancel.

Interrupt narration

While Heard is speaking, tap right ⌘ to stop the current sentence.

Hands-free dictation

Double-press right ⌘ and keep talking without holding the key. Tap right ⌘ once to send. Your words go where push to talk sends them: the text field you’re in, or an agent you name. A hands-free turn sends itself after about a minute.

At rest, push to talk keeps the microphone closed, so macOS shows no microphone indicator. The “Hey Parrot” wake word listens while it waits, so with Parrot on, macOS shows its microphone indicator.

Stay quiet during calls

When another app is using your microphone, such as a meeting, a call, or a huddle, Heard holds its narration. Turn off Stay quiet during calls in Settings under Parrot to keep narrating, for example while you record a video.

Custom vocabulary

Teach Heard the words it keeps missing: project names, teammates, jargon. Add them in Settings under Vocabulary. Corrections apply to every dictation and spoken reply, and the list syncs with your account so it survives updates and reinstalls. Turn on Clean up dictation to remove filler words and fix punctuation.

Text Parrot from your iPhone

Link your iPhone number and text Parrot from Messages while you are away from your Mac: it texts you when something needs you, and you can reply or send a voice memo. See Text Parrot from your iPhone.

See Plans and compatibility for the difference between the open source engine and Power.