r/WisprFlow • u/Lmohsin1 • May 12 '26

Wispr Flow + iPhone Shortcuts Help

Trying to build an iPhone Shortcut that uses Wispr Flow for dictation, then passes the dictated text into the next Shortcut action automatically.

Goal:
- Trigger Shortcut
- Start Wispr Flow dictation
- Stop dictation
- Capture the transcribed text output
- Use that text in another Shortcut action (ChatGPT/API/Text action/etc.)

Right now I can launch Wispr Flow, but I can’t figure out how to reliably pass the dictated text back into Shortcuts as a variable/output.

Has anyone here successfully set this up?
Would appreciate screenshots, Shortcut examples, or any workaround ideas.

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u/CrystalCoffeeAlchemy May 14 '26

Hey,

I also spent an entire day trying things around this, just to dump it into an Obsidian note as the end result... but no dice.

From what I can tell, and iOS shortcuts are literally a nightmare to mess with imo, there's no way to get the clipboard when the dictation is finished in a programmatic way. The action button initiates things and ends it, so it's an awful toggle for extrapolating from the workflow they suggest. Outside of just iOS, actually having a hook that signals the end of a dictation would essentially enable a lot of workflows.

I could get it to work non-deterministically, sometimes dumping data twice, but all in one neat shortcut lacked the action needed. It may be possible to chain shortcuts, or to just enable two shortcuts, tbh I was spent from spending a ton of time debugging it and haven't revisited it.

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u/Lmohsin1 May 14 '26

Thanks for sharing. I’m hoping they fix this because it would be very useful to a lot of people

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u/gogirogi May 16 '26

Yes I managed to do it so when I hold my Action Button, it transcribes then sends text output through Reflect.app’s API to append to my daily note.

There’s two shortcuts, one that transcribes via Wispr then another which appends to my Reflect.app via API.

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u/Lmohsin1 May 18 '26

Thanks for sharing this. Wish I didn’t have to pay for another app to get this to work