Feature request: Norwegian (Bokmål/Nynorsk) dictation support

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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

• Voice mode references 'dictation language' in /config, but setting doesn't exist — support separate language settings #34433 (separate language settings for interface/chat/dictation)
• [FEATURE] Multi-language dictation support on Claude Desktop #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
2. Add the same to Claude Code /voice language config
3. Documentation update in https://support.claude.com (dictation
   language list)

Happy to test pre-release builds if useful.

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Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. Feature request: Add voiceLanguage setting for /voice mode #31724
2. Voice: Add language configuration for speech-to-text transcription #33170
3. [Feature Request] Add Chinese language voice support #49339

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