The Pain Points Every Developer Recognizes
You spend hours in a state of deep focus — navigating a complex codebase, holding a mental model of half a dozen interconnected systems — and then you have to stop and write. Documentation. A commit message. A ticket description. A code comment explaining why a particular implementation decision was made.
The context switch is brutal. Your fingers leave the keyboard for a moment, or worse, you have to switch to a browser tab, a project management tool, or a separate text editor. By the time you finish writing, the thread of thought you were pulling on has frayed.
There is also the physical dimension. Developers type more than almost any other profession. RSI — repetitive strain injury — is an occupational hazard that forces many developers to rethink their entire workflow. Wrist pain, carpal tunnel, tendinitis: these are not abstract risks. They derail careers.
And then there is the quality problem. Documentation written in frustration is documentation written poorly. Terse commit messages. Stub comments that say nothing. Ticket descriptions that leave teammates confused. The cognitive overhead of switching from code-thinking to writing-thinking is high enough that most developers default to doing the bare minimum.
Telvr was built to close that gap.
Feature Mapping: Telvr for Developer Workflows
| Developer Need | Telvr Feature | |---|---| | Write structured dev tasks and tickets | Dev Task enrichment mode | | Document code and add comments by voice | Raw Transcription or Clean & Correct mode | | Draft commit messages hands-free | Clean & Correct mode with natural speech | | Work inside VS Code, Cursor, or any IDE | System-wide text insertion at cursor | | Reduce keyboard time to protect from RSI | Push-to-talk hotkey replaces extended typing | | Communicate in technical English clearly | Clean & Correct removes fillers, fixes grammar | | Write across multiple tools without switching | Works in any app: IDE, browser, Slack, Linear |
Your Workflow with Telvr
Here is what a typical development session looks like once Telvr is part of your toolchain.
Step 1: Identify a task. You are deep in a codebase and realize a refactoring is needed. Instead of opening Jira, typing a ticket title, tabbing to the description field, and writing a half-hearted explanation, you press the push-to-talk hotkey.
Step 2: Speak the task. You describe it naturally: "Refactor the authentication middleware to extract token validation into its own utility function. The current implementation mixes token parsing with role checking in a single function body. Requirements: separate the two concerns, ensure existing tests still pass, add unit tests for the new utility. Acceptance criteria: no breaking changes to the public API."
Step 3: Dev Task mode structures it. Telvr's Dev Task enrichment mode takes your spoken description and formats it into a structured task with clearly labeled sections for context, requirements, and acceptance criteria. The result is inserted at your cursor position, inside whatever app is in focus — your ticket tool, your IDE, your team chat.
Step 4: Back to coding. Total time: under ten seconds. No context switch. No app switching. No mental overhead from trying to write while thinking about code.
The same pattern applies to code comments. You position your cursor at the right line in VS Code or Cursor, press the hotkey, and dictate the explanation. Telvr inserts it immediately. You never left your flow state.
Enrichment Modes That Matter
Dev Task Mode
This is the mode built specifically for developers. When you dictate a task description, Telvr's AI does not just transcribe — it restructures your input into a format that matches how good engineering tickets are written.
The output follows a consistent structure:
- Context: What is the background? What problem does this solve?
- Requirements: What specifically needs to be done?
- Acceptance Criteria: How do we know it is done?
This is the kind of ticket your teammates will actually understand. The kind that does not spawn four Slack threads of clarifying questions. And you produced it in one voice dictation instead of five minutes of typing.
Example input (spoken naturally): "We need to add rate limiting to the public API. Right now any client can hammer the endpoints. We should limit to 100 requests per minute per API key and return a 429 with a Retry-After header when the limit is hit."
Example output (Dev Task mode):
Context: The public API currently has no rate limiting, exposing endpoints to potential abuse and overload from individual clients.
Requirements:
- Implement rate limiting at 100 requests per minute per API key
- Return HTTP 429 status when limit is exceeded
- Include Retry-After header in the 429 response
Acceptance Criteria:
- Clients exceeding the limit receive a 429 with a valid Retry-After header
- Clients within the limit experience no change in behavior
- Rate limit resets after 60 seconds
Clean & Correct Mode
Not everything needs the full Dev Task structure. For commit messages, inline comments, README sections, or Slack messages to colleagues, Clean & Correct mode is the right tool.
You speak naturally, including hesitations and restatements, and Telvr produces clean, grammatically correct prose. Filler words are removed. Run-on sentences are broken up. The output reads like text written by someone who had time to edit.
This mode is ideal for developer communication where clarity matters but rigid structure does not.
Raw Transcription
For moments when you want verbatim output — copying a URL you are reading aloud, dictating a code snippet into a comment, or capturing your exact words without reformatting — Raw Transcription gives you Whisper large-v3 accuracy with nothing added or removed.
Pricing That Makes Sense
Developer time is expensive. If your hourly rate is anywhere near what the market pays for experienced engineers, the math here is not complicated.
Telvr uses a pay-as-you-go model with volume pricing: EUR 3 per month as a monthly minimum (which counts toward usage), and transcription rates starting from EUR 0.003 per minute — scaling down to EUR 0.0003/min at high volume. A one-minute dictation session that produces a fully structured dev task, a cleaned-up commit message, and two code comments would cost less than the smallest unit of currency most people think about.
For context: if Telvr saves you fifteen minutes of typing and context-switching per day, that is over an hour per week. The return on three euro cents per dictation minute is difficult to argue with.
There is no subscription trap. No annual commitment. Pay for what you use. The 14-day free trial includes EUR 3 in starter credit, which is enough to run dozens of real dictation sessions and build a genuine sense of whether it fits your workflow.
Get Started
Download Telvr and start with the 14-day free trial. EUR 3 in starter credit is included — no payment details required to begin.
Within one session, you will have dictated your first dev task, written your first voice comment, and pushed a commit message that actually explains what changed. The hotkey becomes muscle memory faster than you expect.
Telvr is available on macOS. Windows support is in development.