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Voice typing in Ashby

Ashby is analytics-heavy, and analytics on empty feedback fields tell you nothing. Typally puts your words into Ashby the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.

We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Ashby has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.
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In short

  • Ashby's own dictation: None. Structured feedback fields are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: works above the app rather than inside it — Ashby sees ordinary typed text.
  • Best used for: structured interview feedback

Does Ashby have built-in dictation?

None. Structured feedback fields are typed.

Why dictate in Ashby at all?

A hiring system built on data still depends on humans writing the qualitative half. Ratings without written evidence produce dashboards that look rigorous and are not.

In practice people use it for: Structured interview feedback, candidate notes, debrief summaries, and job description drafts.

How to dictate in Ashby

Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Ashby:

1

Install Typally

Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.

2

In Ashby, click the field before you speak

Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Ashby decides where the text lands, not Typally.

3

Press and speak

Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.

4

Read it before you move on

Interview feedback is personal data about an identifiable candidate. Third-party transcription is an extra processor to account for.

What Typally adds in Ashby

Typally types into Ashby's structured feedback fields, so the sentence of evidence under each rating costs about eight seconds instead of a minute. That is the difference between hiring data you can audit and a dashboard of unexplained numbers. Bear in mind candidate notes are personal data — audio is transcribed by a third-party service before it becomes text.

What this looks like in practice

A hiring team requires one line of evidence per rating, spoken rather than typed. Six months later they can actually audit which interview signals predicted good hires, because the signals were written down.

One habit that makes it work better

Give every rating one dictated sentence of evidence. Ratings without evidence are the thing that makes hiring data untrustworthy.

What to watch out for in Ashby

Interview feedback is personal data about an identifiable candidate. Third-party transcription is an extra processor to account for.

Frequently asked questions

Does Ashby include speech input?

No. Its fields are typed.

Why write evidence alongside a rating?

Because the rating alone cannot be reviewed, challenged or learned from. The sentence underneath it is the part with information in it.

Can I dictate job descriptions?

Yes, and they are a good use — job descriptions have no candidate data in them.

Try it in Ashby

The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.

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