Dictate in any app · Database
Airtable's long-text fields are where the useful context goes, and where records stay empty. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Airtable accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Airtable has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None. Every field type is a standard input.
A record is only as useful as its notes field. Structured columns get filled because they are quick — a dropdown, a date — and the notes column, which is the one that explains anything, gets skipped.
In practice people use it for: Notes and description fields, CRM records, content calendars, applicant tracking notes, and project detail.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Airtable:
Windows or macOS build, signed in once.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Airtable decides where the text lands, not Typally.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Pressing Enter in a grid cell commits and moves down. Always expand the record for anything longer than a few words.
Expand a record, hold the key, and Typally fills the long-text field with clean sentences instead of the three words you would have typed into a grid cell. It works the same in every base and every view, so the notes column that decides whether a record is useful finally gets filled in while the detail is still fresh.
A recruiter interviewing eight candidates in a day dictates forty seconds of impressions into each record straight after the call. By Friday the shortlist writes itself, instead of depending on remembering which of the eight was which.
Expand the record before dictating rather than typing into the grid cell. The expanded view gives you a real text area instead of a cramped cell.
Pressing Enter in a grid cell commits and moves down. Always expand the record for anything longer than a few words.
Yes. Expand the record first so the field is a proper text area.
No. All field types are typed inputs.
The phone keyboard's microphone covers mobile. Desktop is where a separate tool matters.
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