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Voice typing in Calendly

Booking pages are read before every meeting and written once, badly. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Calendly without you touching the keyboard.

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

  • Calendly's own dictation: None. Event descriptions and questions are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: sends keystrokes to whichever window is in front, so Calendly needs no plugin or setup.
  • Best used for: event type descriptions

Does Calendly have built-in dictation?

None. Event descriptions and questions are typed.

Why dictate in Calendly at all?

The description on a booking link sets expectations for what the meeting is, how long it runs and what to prepare. It is written in thirty seconds when creating the link and then read by hundreds of people.

In practice people use it for: Event type descriptions, intake question text, confirmation and reminder message copy, and cancellation policy wording.

How to dictate in Calendly

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

1

Get Typally running

Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.

2

Put the cursor in the Calendly field you are filling

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

3

Hold, say it, release

Nothing truncates part-way through.

4

Read it before you move on

Reminder and confirmation emails have their own text fields separate from the event description. Update all of them.

What Typally adds in Calendly

Typally types into Calendly's event descriptions, intake questions and reminder copy, so the text hundreds of invitees read stops being the thing you wrote in thirty seconds. One spoken sentence about what to prepare changes what the meeting is, and speaking makes writing it cost nothing.

What this looks like in practice

A consultant adds two spoken sentences to each of her four booking types explaining what to prepare. Discovery calls stop opening with fifteen minutes of context-setting, because the context arrived beforehand.

One habit that makes it work better

Dictate what the invitee should prepare. A meeting where both sides arrive ready is a different meeting, and one sentence causes it.

What to watch out for in Calendly

Reminder and confirmation emails have their own text fields separate from the event description. Update all of them.

Frequently asked questions

Does Calendly have voice input?

No. All text fields are typed.

What belongs in an event description?

What the meeting is for, how long it takes, and what to bring or prepare.

Can I dictate intake questions?

Yes, and well-worded intake questions do more to make a call useful than anything said during it.

Try it in Calendly

There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.

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