You’re deep in a design review — panning across the frames, zooming into a component, pointing at the thing that’s off. The feedback is right there in your head, but leaving it means stopping, dropping to the keyboard, and typing it out. With Clavio you just say it. Press C to grab Figma’s comment tool, click the spot on the canvas, and speak your note — “this label’s tight, let’s give it a bit more room” — and it lands in the comment box in a clean, casual voice, the way you’d actually say it to a teammate. Auto-send stays off, so you place the pin exactly where it belongs and post it yourself. Your hands stay on the canvas, pointing and panning, while the words get written — and the same voice carries the follow-up into Slack, Linear, and the handoff notes.
Comment without leaving the canvas
A design review lives on the canvas — you’re panning across frames, zooming into a component, pointing at the thing that’s off. Clavio keeps you there. Press C to grab Figma’s comment tool, click the spot you’re talking about, and a pin drops with the comment box open. Give Clavio a wake word or a hotkey, say it (or tap the key once), and just talk — your note fills the box while your other hand stays on the trackpad, still panning and pointing. There’s no window to open and no key to hold down while you speak, so the gap between spotting something and leaving feedback on it closes to about the length of one sentence.
Casual tone, because it’s a note to a teammate
A comment on a frame isn’t a document — it’s a quick note to a designer or an engineer who’ll read it in context and act on it. So keep Clavio on a casual polish for Figma: it clears the “um,” the “so yeah,” and the false starts, and shapes what you said into a clean line — without stiffening it into a formal memo or changing what you meant. You still sound like you talking to a teammate, just tidier. Add your component and variant names, your token and frame names, and your teammates’ handles to Clavio’s dictionary, and “Button/Primary,” “spacing-md,” and an @-mention come through spelled right instead of guessed at.
Auto-send off — you place the pin, then post it
A Figma comment isn’t a message you fire off — it’s feedback pinned to an exact spot, and where it lands is half the point. That’s why you keep Clavio’s auto-send off here. Clavio drops your note into the comment box and stops: you place the pin on the right layer, read the line back, add an @-mention if someone needs to see it, and post it yourself with Cmd+Enter. Speaking a full, specific comment — what’s wrong, what to try instead — is the hands-free part; deciding it’s pinned to the right place and ready to post stays a deliberate click. You get the speed of talking through a whole round of feedback with your hands on the canvas, and none of the risk of a half-formed note landing on the wrong frame.
One voice for the whole design loop
The comment is one stop. Leave your feedback on the frame, reply to the thread when a designer pushes back, drop a note in FigJam while you’re sketching the flow — all in the same casual voice, right on the canvas. Then, when the review turns into work, switch over and keep going: Slack the team a summary, file the follow-up as a Linear or Jira ticket, write up the dev handoff or the spec in Notion — and there you might want it tidier, so Clavio moves to a natural tone for that window while Figma stays casual. Clavio remembers the tone per app, so one wake word carries you from a canvas comment to a ticket to a handoff — and because it only answers to your voice, a teammate talking through the review beside you never drops a stray comment. That’s the whole design loop, spoken instead of typed.
Recommended Clavio settings for Figma
| Setting | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Wake word or hotkey | Figma has no name to talk to, so trigger with a wake word or a single key — one hand stays on the trackpad, panning and pointing, while you speak. |
| Polish level | Casual (light polish) | Review comments are quick notes to a teammate — casual clears the filler and tidies the line without stiffening it into a formal memo. |
| Auto-send | Off | A comment is pinned to an exact spot. Clavio drops the note in the box and waits, so you place the pin, @-mention, and post it yourself. |
| Personal dictionary | Add component and variant names | Keeps component, variant, token, and frame names — Button/Primary, spacing-md — plus teammate @-handles spelled right instead of guessed at. |
| Comment tool (C) | Press C, click, speak | Figma’s comment tool drops a pin where you click — trigger Clavio, dictate into the open box, and post once the pin is on the right layer. |
Give feedback hands-free with Clavio
Clavio is an AI dictation app for Mac. It sits in your menu bar and types finished text wherever your cursor is — a Figma comment box, a FigJam sticky, Slack, your Linear or Jira ticket, the handoff doc. You trigger it with a wake word or a hotkey (no key to hold), and choose the polish per app: a casual tone for canvas comments, a natural one for the spec you write afterwards. Auto-send stays off in Figma, so you place each comment where it belongs and post it yourself. A personal dictionary keeps your component and token names intact, and an on-device voiceprint means only your voice sets it off. Free to try: 3,000 words a month, no card, macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon. Pro is £12/month for unlimited.
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Common questions
Does Figma or my Mac already have voice input?
Figma has no built-in dictation, and the one macOS ships types your raw words with no cleanup, doesn’t know your component or token names, and stops at the comment box. Clavio drops a clean, casual comment instead, keeps your Figma names spelled right, and follows you past the canvas into Slack and your tracker — which is why most designers reach for it.
Can I dictate into Figma fully hands-free?
The talking is: set a wake word and no key is held, no line is typed — you grab the comment tool, click the spot, and speak while your hands stay on the canvas, panning and pointing. Placing the pin and posting the comment stay your two deliberate clicks, and that’s on purpose — with a comment, you want to decide exactly where the feedback lands.
Will it reword my comments or mangle component names?
Not the way you mean — casual polish clears the filler and tidies the line without stiffening it or changing what you said, so it still reads like you. To keep names precise, add your components, variants, tokens, and teammate handles to the dictionary, and “Button/Primary,” “spacing-md,” and an @-mention come through spelled right instead of guessed at.
Does my comment post the second I stop talking?
No, and that’s deliberate for Figma — auto-send stays off. Clavio drops your note into the comment box and waits, so you place the pin on the right layer, add an @-mention, and post it yourself with Cmd+Enter. You get to speak a full, specific comment fast, but it only lands when and where you decide.
Can I use the same voice outside Figma?
Yes — that’s the point of a system-wide app. The same voice types into FigJam, Slack, your Linear or Jira ticket, and the handoff doc the same way it fills a Figma comment, and it remembers the tone per app: casual for canvas comments, natural for the written spec. One wake word carries you across the whole loop.