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Voice typing in Bitbucket

Bitbucket sits next to Jira, so a pull request usually needs writing twice. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Bitbucket accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.

From the people who build Typally. If Bitbucket's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.
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In short

  • Bitbucket's own dictation: None. Pull request descriptions, comments and wiki pages are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: behaves like a keyboard, so it reaches parts of Bitbucket a built-in feature would not.
  • Best used for: pull request descriptions

Does Bitbucket have built-in dictation?

None. Pull request descriptions, comments and wiki pages are typed.

Why dictate in Bitbucket at all?

The context lives in the Jira ticket and the change lives in the pull request, and neither links well enough to save you writing both. So the PR description says 'see ticket', which helps nobody reviewing at eleven at night.

In practice people use it for: Pull request descriptions, inline review comments, repository README files, and branch documentation.

How to dictate in Bitbucket

Setup happens once, outside Bitbucket, and then applies to every program on the machine:

1

Set Typally up once

One install, one sign-in. Nothing else to configure.

2

Focus the Bitbucket field you want the words in

Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Bitbucket before starting.

3

Press and speak

Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.

4

Read it before you move on

Bitbucket's comment editor supports markdown, so dictated punctuation can create lists and code spans mid-sentence.

What Typally adds in Bitbucket

Typally types into pull request descriptions and inline review comments from the same hotkey you use everywhere else. Custom vocabulary keeps your service and module names intact, so a spoken review comment does not need correcting before you post it. Nothing installs into Bitbucket, so there is no plugin to get through review.

What this looks like in practice

A reviewer who used to write 'why?' on a line now speaks three sentences explaining what will break under load and what to try instead. The change is fixed in one round instead of a two-day exchange.

One habit that makes it work better

Write the PR description for someone who will not open the ticket, because most reviewers will not. Two spoken sentences of context beat a link.

What to watch out for in Bitbucket

Bitbucket's comment editor supports markdown, so dictated punctuation can create lists and code spans mid-sentence.

Frequently asked questions

Does Bitbucket have dictation?

No. All fields are typed markdown.

Can I dictate inline code review comments?

Yes, and it is where dictation earns most — explaining why something is a problem takes a paragraph.

Does it work in Bitbucket's pipelines configuration?

Pipeline config is YAML, which is symbol-dense and better typed.

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