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Voice typing in BigCommerce

Catalogue copy is the biggest writing job in e-commerce and always the last one done. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in BigCommerce exactly where your cursor was.

Written by the team behind Typally. BigCommerce's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.
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In short

  • BigCommerce's own dictation: None. Product fields are typed into the admin.
  • What Typally does instead: puts text wherever the cursor is, in BigCommerce or in anything else you have open.
  • Best used for: product descriptions

Does BigCommerce have built-in dictation?

None. Product fields are typed into the admin.

Why dictate in BigCommerce at all?

Merchants migrating to BigCommerce arrive with a catalogue of descriptions copied from manufacturer sheets, identical to every competitor's. Rewriting them is obviously worthwhile and obviously enormous.

In practice people use it for: Product descriptions, category page copy, custom field text, and customer email replies.

How to dictate in BigCommerce

Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into BigCommerce, setup is the same everywhere:

1

Download and sign in

Grab the build for your platform and create an account.

2

Click into the right box in BigCommerce first

Make sure BigCommerce has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.

3

Talk while holding the key

The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.

4

Read it before you move on

The product description editor supports HTML. Dictated text lands as plain paragraphs — check formatting before saving.

What Typally adds in BigCommerce

Typally types into the BigCommerce admin like a keyboard, so rewriting your top products by voice needs no integration or app install. Its cleanup pass matters here — product copy full of ums is worse than the manufacturer's blurb — and speaking makes the specific, honest detail that differentiates a listing cheap enough to actually write.

What this looks like in practice

A merchant rewrites twenty product pages by voice over a weekend rather than attempting all six hundred. Those twenty account for most of the store's revenue, and the difference shows in the ones that matter.

One habit that makes it work better

Rewrite the top twenty products by revenue first and dictate them. The long tail can wait; the top twenty are where the money is.

What to watch out for in BigCommerce

The product description editor supports HTML. Dictated text lands as plain paragraphs — check formatting before saving.

Frequently asked questions

Does BigCommerce have voice input?

No. All admin fields are typed.

Should I rewrite every product description?

Start with the products that actually sell. Rewriting the whole catalogue at once is how the project stalls.

Can I dictate category page copy?

Yes, and category pages are often the ones with no copy at all.

Try it in BigCommerce

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