Feature request: Norwegian (Bokmål/Nynorsk) dictation support

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened May 12, 2026 by avalyset Closed May 16, 2026

Summary

Add Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) as supported dictation languages
in Claude Code voice mode and the Claude mobile app.

Background

Claude Code's /voice feature and the Claude mobile app dictation
feature currently support a limited set of languages (English, French,
German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and a handful of others per
the mobile help center documentation).

Norwegian is supported at production quality by:

  • Apple's native speech recognition (macOS, iOS)
  • Google Speech-to-Text
  • OpenAI Whisper (multilingual model)

The underlying transcription capability exists. This request is for
the UI option to be exposed.

Use case

Norwegian-speaking developers and researchers who currently work
around this by transcribing in third-party tools (ChatGPT, native
OS dictation, or browser extensions) and pasting into Claude. This
adds friction for long-form prompts, documentation, and code review
contexts where dictation is most valuable.

Personal context: I contribute to Norwegian-language AI safety
evaluation in kelkalot/simpleaudit (Simula Research Laboratory,
Digital Public Good certified). Three merged PRs adding NAV AAP
and Skatteetaten evaluation scenarios in Norwegian (PR #16, #17,
#18). Working with Claude in my native language directly would
improve quality and reduce context-switching.

Related issues

  • #34433 (separate language settings for interface/chat/dictation)
  • #37809 (multi-language dictation on Claude Desktop)

This issue is filed as a dedicated tracking thread for Norwegian
specifically, since the related issues focus on architectural
language-settings questions and multilingual support broadly.

Suggested scope

  1. Add nb-NO (Bokmål) and nn-NO (Nynorsk) to the dictation

language dropdown in mobile app

  1. Add the same to Claude Code /voice language config
  2. Documentation update in https://support.claude.com (dictation

language list)

Happy to test pre-release builds if useful.

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