Dictate in any app · HR
Small-company HR means one person writing every policy, note and review. Typally types what you say straight into BambooHR — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere BambooHR lets you type.
From the people who build Typally. If BambooHR's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.None. Notes, policies and review fields are typed.
A company of eighty has the same documentation obligations as one of eight hundred and one person to meet them. Policies stay unwritten, and the gap only becomes visible during a dispute.
In practice people use it for: Employee notes, policy documents, performance review text, onboarding material, and job descriptions.
Setup happens once, outside BambooHR, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in BambooHR before starting.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Employee records are confidential and subject to data protection law. Audio leaves your machine when transcribed — verify that against your obligations before dictating anything identifying an employee.
Typally is well suited to the company-level writing HR never gets to — handbooks, policies, onboarding documents, job descriptions — where the volume is high and the content is not about any individual. Keep records about identifiable employees out of it: audio is processed by a third-party transcription service before it becomes text.
An HR manager finally writes the eleven policies that have been outstanding since the company doubled in size, speaking them across two afternoons. None mentions an individual, so the documents are ordinary company writing.
Dictate the note documenting a conversation on the day it happens. Contemporaneous records are the ones that hold up; reconstructed ones do not.
Employee records are confidential and subject to data protection law. Audio leaves your machine when transcribed — verify that against your obligations before dictating anything identifying an employee.
No. All fields are typed.
Consider data protection first. Transcription sends audio to a third party, which may matter for records about identifiable people.
Policies, job descriptions, handbooks and onboarding material — documents about the company rather than about a person.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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