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Voice typing in Adobe Audition

Audition cleans up the audio; the script and the notes are still typed. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Adobe Audition without you touching the keyboard.

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In short

  • Adobe Audition's own dictation: Speech-to-text transcription of your recordings in recent versions.
  • What Typally does instead: sends keystrokes to whichever window is in front, so Adobe Audition needs no plugin or setup.
  • Best used for: scripts

Does Adobe Audition have built-in dictation?

Speech-to-text transcription of your recordings in recent versions.

Why dictate in Adobe Audition at all?

Transcribing what was recorded is solved. Writing the script beforehand, and the episode description afterwards, is not — and both are done by the same tired person who just finished editing.

In practice people use it for: Scripts, marker notes, episode descriptions, show notes, and client revision replies.

How to dictate in Adobe Audition

You do not configure anything in Adobe Audition. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:

1

Get Typally running

Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.

2

Put the cursor in the Adobe Audition field you are filling

Text goes wherever Adobe Audition has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.

3

Hold, say it, release

Nothing truncates part-way through.

4

Read it before you move on

Audition transcribes your footage, not your writing. The two are different directions.

What Typally adds in Adobe Audition

Typally works in the opposite direction to Audition's transcription and pairs neatly with it: speak the script, record it, let Audition transcribe the result. Prose that started as speech is what makes a natural read possible.

What this looks like in practice

A voiceover artist speaks the script first, then records it. The read needs half as many takes, because the sentences were built for a mouth rather than a page.

One habit that makes it work better

Dictate the script and read it back before recording. Text written by speaking sounds natural when read aloud; text written by typing usually does not.

What to watch out for in Adobe Audition

Audition transcribes your footage, not your writing. The two are different directions.

Frequently asked questions

Does Audition transcribe audio?

Yes, recent versions transcribe your recordings. That is your audio becoming text, not you composing.

Why dictate a script for audio?

Because spoken-origin text sounds natural when read aloud. Typed prose often reads stilted.

Can I dictate marker notes?

Yes — markers have text fields.

Try it in Adobe Audition

There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.

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