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Azure DevOps spans work items, repos and pipelines, and all three run on written context. Typally puts your words into Azure DevOps the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Written by the team behind Typally. Azure DevOps's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None. Work item descriptions, PR text and wiki pages are typed.
Enterprise teams using Azure DevOps are typically large enough that the person picking up a work item never spoke to the person who created it. Everything they need has to be in the description field.
In practice people use it for: Work item descriptions, acceptance criteria, pull request text, wiki documentation, and release notes.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Azure DevOps, setup is the same everywhere:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Make sure Azure DevOps has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
The work item form has many fields and saves as a unit. Confirm which field has focus before dictating a long passage.
Typally types into work item descriptions, acceptance criteria and wiki pages without any extension to get approved, which matters on managed corporate machines. Because it behaves like a keyboard, Azure DevOps cannot tell the difference, and there is nothing for IT to whitelist beyond the application itself.
A team where every sprint began with twenty minutes of 'what does this ticket mean' starts dictating acceptance criteria at creation time. Sprint planning shortens by half, because the tickets answer the question themselves.
Dictate acceptance criteria as if describing what you would check by hand. Spoken criteria are concrete; written ones drift into abstraction.
The work item form has many fields and saves as a unit. Confirm which field has focus before dictating a long passage.
No. All text entry is typed.
Yes — it is a markdown editor like the rest.
Yes. Work item fields are ordinary web inputs.
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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