Dictate in any app · Design
Publisher lays out long documents, and long documents are mostly words. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Affinity Publisher exactly where your cursor was.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Affinity Publisher's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.None. Text frames are typed or placed from an external file.
The standard workflow places copy written elsewhere, which means the actual writing happened in a word processor at typing speed. The layout tool gets blamed for a slow process that was slow before it started.
In practice people use it for: Copy drafted for placement, captions, editorial notes, and the brief describing a layout.
There is no Affinity Publisher extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
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Click first. Typally types into Affinity Publisher wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Text overflows frames silently when it runs longer than the design allowed. Check after placing dictated copy.
Typally types into whatever plain editor you draft in and into Publisher's text frames when you need to. Keeping composition out of the layout tool is the real speed-up, and dictation is what makes the drafting stage short.
Someone producing a forty-page catalogue speaks all the product copy into a plain document first. Placement then takes an afternoon instead of a week of writing inside frames.
Write in a plain editor and place the text. Composing inside a layout means fighting text frames while still deciding what to say.
Text overflows frames silently when it runs longer than the design allowed. Check after placing dictated copy.
No. It relies on the operating system's own, or a separate tool.
Rarely. Draft elsewhere, then place — layout and composition are different jobs.
Yes, with the cursor inside the text frame.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
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