---
type: entity
subtype: tool
title: "Aqua Voice"
description: "Speech-to-text platform Cole uses to dictate into any text box, especially for communicating with LLMs."
resource: "https://withaqua.com"
tags: [voice, speech-to-text, dictation, workflow]
videos: [youre-hardly-using-what-claude-code-has-to-offer-its-insane, how-id-learn-ai-agents-fast-if-i-had-to-start-over-full-roadmap, turn-any-website-into-llm-knowledge-in-seconds-evolved]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Aqua Voice

Aqua Voice is a speech-to-text (STT) tool Cole uses to dictate directly into any text field on his machine, and it is his default way of talking to LLMs rather than typing. He describes the appeal in one line: "I like using this platform called Aqua Voice... it can take what I said and turn it into text in any text box on my entire computer" [0:03:47]. The point is system-wide reach, it is not tied to one editor or chat app, so the same dictation habit works in Claude Code, a browser, or a terminal.

Cole treats fast, accurate dictation as an underrated productivity lever for AI work. When walking through what people miss in Claude Code, he places Aqua Voice among a small set of "very powerful external speech-to-text tools out there like I use Aqua voice. A lot of people love using Whisperflow or Eperenter Whispering" [0:11:34]. So it sits in a category (alongside Whisperflow and Whispering) rather than standing alone; his recommendation is the habit of dictating to agents, with Aqua as his personal pick. This is why speaking to an LLM instead of typing matters: it lowers the friction of writing the detailed prompts that [effective prompting](../../concepts/effective-prompting.md) demands, and it makes verbose instructions cheap, which reinforces [capabilities over tools](../../concepts/capabilities-over-tools.md) and hands-on [learning by building](../../concepts/learn-by-building.md).

Aqua has also sponsored Cole's content, and in that read he highlights two differentiators: it is "an insanely powerful and accurate AI voice system that works on any application" [0:09:30], and it ships a "feature called deep context where it can view your screen to understand what you're currently working on" [0:10:22]. That screen-aware deep-context feature is the interesting technical wrinkle, transcription accuracy improves when the tool can see the surrounding application state, so dictating a command into an agent editor or a [RAG](../../concepts/rag.md) knowledge tool comes out cleaner than blind transcription would.

## Works with

- [ElevenLabs](./elevenlabs.md) - the mirror-image sibling: text-to-speech rather than speech-to-text.
- [Vapi](./vapi.md) - no-code voice AI platform; a sibling voice tool in Cole's stack.
- [Remotion](./remotion.md) - sibling media-generation tool in Cole's voice-and-media set.
- [Perplexity](./perplexity.md) - AI-powered deep research search engine Cole uses daily to research new LLMs, frameworks, and AI tech.

## Related

- [Effective Prompting](../../concepts/effective-prompting.md) - dictation makes writing the detailed, specific prompts effective prompting demands frictionless.
- [Capabilities Over Tools](../../concepts/capabilities-over-tools.md) - Aqua is a capability layered on top of any app, not a walled tool.
- [Learn by Building](../../concepts/learn-by-building.md) - lowering input friction speeds hands-on iteration.
- [Global Rules](../../concepts/global-rules.md) - dictate the standing instructions agents load every session.
- [Agent Teams](../../concepts/agent-teams.md) - coordinating multiple specialized agents, one of the contexts he dictates into.
- [Agents vs. Workflows](../../concepts/agents-vs-workflows.md) - the agent-vs-workflow contexts he dictates into.
- [Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)](../../concepts/rag.md) - dictating queries and content into knowledge tools.

## Sources

- [You're Hardly Using What Claude Code Has to Offer, it's Insane](../../sources/youre-hardly-using-what-claude-code-has-to-offer-its-insane.md) - "[0:11:34] there are a lot of very powerful external speechtoext tools out there like I use Aqua voice. A lot of people love using Whisperflow or Eperenter Whispering"
- [How I'd Learn AI Agents FAST if I Had to Start Over (Full Roadmap)](../../sources/how-id-learn-ai-agents-fast-if-i-had-to-start-over-full-roadmap.md) - "[0:03:47] I like using this platform called Aqua Voice... it can take what I said and turn it into text in any text box on my entire computer."
- [Turn ANY Website into LLM Knowledge in Seconds - EVOLVED](../../sources/turn-any-website-into-llm-knowledge-in-seconds-evolved.md) - "[0:09:30] The sponsor of today's video is Aqua Voice, an insanely powerful and accurate AI voice system that works on any application"
- [Turn ANY Website into LLM Knowledge in Seconds - EVOLVED](../../sources/turn-any-website-into-llm-knowledge-in-seconds-evolved.md) - "[0:10:22] Aqua has this feature called deep context where it can view your screen to understand what you're currently working on"
