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Claude rewards long, detailed prompts, and long prompts are exactly what typing discourages. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Claude exactly where your cursor was.
From the people who build Typally. If Claude's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.The web interface has no dictation of its own on desktop; the mobile apps use the phone keyboard's microphone.
Claude handles a lot of context well, so the limiting factor is how much you are willing to type. People paste a file and write one line about it, then spend three exchanges supplying the context they could have given at the start.
In practice people use it for: Long prompts with real background, describing a problem properly before asking, follow-up questions, and drafting documents in conversation.
Setup happens once, outside Claude, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Claude before starting.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Enter sends the message. If your dictation appends a return, the prompt goes before you have read it back.
Typally records until you release the key, which is exactly why it exists — it was built because a voice input that cut off after about a minute made long prompts impossible. Ninety seconds of spoken context arrives as clean, punctuated text in the message box, and you can read it before sending.
Someone debugging a gnarly issue talks for ninety seconds — what the system does, what changed last week, what they already ruled out, what the error says. The first answer is useful, where a one-line prompt would have produced three rounds of twenty questions.
Say the background before the question. Two minutes of spoken context routinely replaces four rounds of clarification, and speaking makes that context nearly free.
Enter sends the message. If your dictation appends a return, the prompt goes before you have read it back.
The mobile apps use the phone keyboard's microphone. On desktop, a system-level dictation tool types into the message box.
More relevant context generally helps. The practical barrier is typing effort, which is what dictation removes.
Yes. A tool that types into the focused window does not care which site you are on.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
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