Feature request: Norwegian (Bokmål/Nynorsk) dictation support

Status Closed — duplicate
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Activity 3 comments · opened May 12, 2026 · 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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