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How to Make Claude Write Like You, and What Your Spoken Words Add

Build a guide to your voice from your own writing, turn it into a Claude skill, and see what a guide built from the way you speak adds.

By Nelson, maker of Aurator

To make Claude write like you, give it a written guide to how you write, and install that guide as a skill in your Claude account. Claude then reads it when it writes as you. You can build the guide today, with no app, from a few things you have written.

Then I will show you a second way, building the guide from the way you speak. That is what My Voice in Aurator does. I make Aurator, so please read this knowing that. Every fact here about Claude, Superwhisper and the Mac comes from their makers' own help pages and documentation, checked on 7 October 2026.

Where Claude keeps a description of your voice

Anthropic's page on personalising Claude lists three places.

  1. Instructions for Claude, in Settings, which apply to every conversation.
  2. Project instructions, which apply only to the chats inside one project.
  3. Skills, which the page says can adjust the tone and format of Claude's replies, and apply communication patterns based on your own writing.

Styles are not on that list. So a skill is where I would put your voice. Claude reads a skill's short description first, and loads the full guide when a task calls for it.

How to write a voice guide from your own samples

  1. Collect your samples. Choose five to ten recent things you wrote yourself, that nobody edited and no AI touched. A couple of emails, a few messages, one longer piece. Take out anything private, such as other people's names and phone numbers.
  2. Ask Claude to study them. Start a new chat, paste the samples in, and ask for a voice guide that another AI will follow to write as you. Ask for short sections on your tone, your sentence length, the words you reach for and the words you never use, how you open and close, your punctuation, and two or three examples. Ask it to base every point on the samples and invent nothing.
  3. Read it slowly and correct it. Cross out anything that is not you, and add what it missed. Keep it to a page or two. This step matters most, because this page shapes everything Claude writes as you.

How to turn the guide into a Claude skill

Skills work on the Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, and they need code execution turned on.

  1. In Claude, open Settings, then Capabilities, and turn on Code execution and file creation. On a Team plan, skills are on by default. On an Enterprise plan, an owner turns them on in Organization settings.
  2. Make a folder named for your skill, for example sam-voice. Use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, as the open skills specification asks, and give the folder and the skill the same name.
  3. Inside the folder, make a plain text file called SKILL.md. It starts with a short header between two lines of three dashes. The header holds two fields, name and description, each written as the field name, a colon, a space and the value. The description tells Claude when to use the skill, in 200 characters or fewer, for example "Write as Sam, in Sam's own voice. Use for any email, message or post written as Sam."
  4. Paste your guide below the header.
  5. Zip the folder itself, so the zip holds the folder and not loose files. On a Mac, Control-click the folder and choose Compress.
  6. In Claude, go to Customize, then Skills. Click the plus button, then Create skill, then Upload a skill, and choose your zip. Check that the skill is switched on.

If you would rather not use a skill, you can paste the same guide into Instructions for Claude.

How to check that Claude is using it

Anthropic suggests trying several prompts that should trigger the skill, reading Claude's thinking to see that it loads it, and changing the description if Claude does not use it when you expect.

I would add one test. Give Claude the points of an email you already sent, ask it to write the email, and put the two side by side. Where it does not sound like you, fix the guide, delete the old skill and upload the new zip.

What typed samples leave out

The method above works, and if all you have is typed writing, use it. But it has a weak point. Ten samples is not much, and they are your edited self. When you type, you go back and fix things, and you reach for the same polite opening you have used for years.

When you talk, you do not stop to polish. The way you build a point, the words you keep coming back to, how you start and how you finish, all of that comes through. As I kept dictating every day, I noticed that every dictation was also a record of how I speak, the way I start my sentences and the topics that fill my day.

Speech has its own problems. It has um and uh, false starts, words the microphone got wrong, and for people like me, who speak English as a second language, small slips. None of that is your voice, and a good guide keeps none of it. And if you speak more warmly than you write a formal report, a guide built from speech may lean warm too.

How Aurator builds the guide from the way you speak

My Voice in Aurator reads your own dictations and writes a guide to how you speak and write, your tone, your phrases, and how you open and close.

  1. It needs about 30 longer dictations. It looks only at the last 180 days. Thirty is a little over four a day across the free week. Until the guide is built, Write for me writes in a plain, warm voice, not yours.
  2. It learns only from words you spoke. It reads what you said, after Aurator's own rules take out sounds such as um and uh, and never text that Write for me or a rewrite style produced.
  3. It needs Apple Intelligence or your own Anthropic key. With Cloud off and Apple Intelligence on, Apple's model builds the guide on your Mac. It reads only a short sample of your dictations, so its guide is shorter. With Cloud on and your own Anthropic key, Claude builds it and reads much more.
  4. With Claude, your words go to Anthropic. Aurator sends your first name and up to about 45,000 characters of what you said in the last 180 days. Aurator asks you before the first time. Anthropic bills you directly, and this is the most costly use of Cloud, because it reads so many dictations. None of it goes to me.
  5. You take it with you. Download the guide as a skill for Claude, a zipped folder with SKILL.md inside, and upload it as in step 6 above. Or copy it as instructions for ChatGPT or any other tool. Write for me uses it too, and you can update it any time.

After the free week, building or sharing the guide waits for a licence key.

Superwhisper has a similar idea

Superwhisper's documentation has a guide called Optimizing Superwhisper with AI. A coding agent such as Claude Code or Codex reads your dictation history through Superwhisper's command line tool, fixes words that keep coming out wrong, and builds new modes. One is a Write for me mode, with instructions written to match your tone. The documentation says this works on the Mac only for now.

That is a good idea, and I want to give it real credit. The difference is where the result lives. Superwhisper's guide builds modes inside Superwhisper, and My Voice builds a guide you take out of Aurator, into Claude or another tool. I compared the two apps in Aurator and Superwhisper.

By hand, from typed samplesSuperwhisper's AI guideAurator's My Voice
What it readsThe samples you chooseYour dictation history, 100 dictations in its sample promptYour dictations, more with Claude than with Apple's model
What you getA guide you make into a skill yourselfNew modes inside Superwhisper, including Write for meA Claude skill file, or instructions to copy
What you needA Claude accountSuperwhisper on a Mac, its command line tool and a coding agentAurator on macOS 26 or later, and Apple Intelligence or an Anthropic key

Which way is the better choice for you

  1. Write the guide by hand if you rarely dictate, if you are not on a Mac, or if you want to choose every sample yourself. It costs nothing.
  2. Use Superwhisper's guide if you already use Superwhisper and a coding agent, and you want the result in Superwhisper's own modes.
  3. Use Aurator's My Voice if you dictate a lot on a Mac and want a guide built from the way you speak, as a Claude skill, with no coding agent to set up.

Try it on your own words

If you want to talk to Claude instead of typing, I wrote about that in How to dictate to Claude on a Mac.

Download Aurator, dictate as you normally would, and once you have about 30 longer dictations, build your guide and read it. And if Aurator is not for you, you get a full refund within 30 days of paying. Aurator is at tryaurator.app. Seven days free, with every feature, then US$29 once.

Sources, all checked on 7 October 2026