Dictate in any app · Design
Canva makes the design quick, and the words on it are still typed one letter at a time. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Canva exactly where your cursor was.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Canva is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.Magic Write, which generates copy. There is no dictation of your own words.
A template gets you a good-looking layout in two minutes. Then you sit there filling text boxes, and the copy is the part that decides whether the design does anything.
In practice people use it for: Social graphics, presentation text, poster and flyer copy, video captions, and the description under an exported design.
Nothing changes inside Canva itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
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The cursor position is the whole instruction — Canva routes the keystrokes from there.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Text boxes auto-resize and can overflow the frame as text arrives, so long dictated passages may look broken until you adjust the box.
Typally works best alongside Canva rather than inside it: speak the copy into a plain document, then paste it into the template. Canva's text boxes are sized to a layout and fight you while you are still deciding what to say. The cleanup pass means what you paste is already punctuated and filler-free.
Someone making a week of social posts speaks all seven captions into a notes file in six minutes, then drops them into the templates. The design work becomes the quick part, which is what it was supposed to be.
Dictate the copy into a plain document first, then paste it in. Canva's text boxes are sized to a layout and fight you while you are still deciding what to say.
Text boxes auto-resize and can overflow the frame as text arrives, so long dictated passages may look broken until you adjust the box.
No. Magic Write generates copy; it does not transcribe your speech.
Yes. Double-click the box so the cursor is inside it first.
Generated copy is faster for filler. Dictated copy says what you actually meant, which usually matters more.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
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