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Character definitions are creative writing, and the definition decides everything downstream. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Character.AI exactly where your cursor was.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Character.AI already does without talking you out of using it.Voice features for conversation exist. Character creation is typed.
A character is only as good as its definition, and the definition is a long piece of descriptive writing done up front. Most people type a paragraph, get a flat character, and blame the model.
In practice people use it for: Character descriptions and definitions, greeting messages, example dialogue, and long in-conversation messages.
You do not configure anything in Character.AI. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Text goes wherever Character.AI has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
Enter sends in conversation. Character definition fields are longer forms — check which one you are in.
Typally types into the character definition fields, where the real writing happens. Spoken description carries mannerisms and specifics that typed description flattens into adjectives, and the cleanup pass keeps it readable. The same hotkey works in the conversation box for longer in-character messages.
Someone whose characters kept coming out bland describes one aloud for three minutes — mannerisms, what they avoid talking about, how they react to being challenged. The resulting character is markedly more consistent.
Describe the character out loud as if telling a friend about someone you know. Spoken description carries specifics that typed description flattens into adjectives.
Enter sends in conversation. Character definition fields are longer forms — check which one you are in.
It has voice features for conversing. Creating and defining a character is typed.
Everything the character does derives from it. A thin definition produces a generic character no matter how you prompt it.
Yes, and spoken dialogue reads more naturally than dialogue typed line by line.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
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