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Voice typing in Cloudflare Dashboard

Cloudflare rules are powerful, invisible in effect, and almost never documented. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Cloudflare Dashboard exactly where your cursor was.

We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Cloudflare Dashboard has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.
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In short

  • Cloudflare Dashboard's own dictation: None. Rule descriptions and notes are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: types into the focused window, so it works in Cloudflare Dashboard and everywhere else you write.
  • Best used for: rule descriptions

Does Cloudflare Dashboard have built-in dictation?

None. Rule descriptions and notes are typed.

Why dictate in Cloudflare Dashboard at all?

A page rule, WAF exception or redirect changes behaviour globally and silently. Without a description saying why it exists, nobody dares touch it, and the rule list grows until the free tier limit forces a reckoning.

In practice people use it for: Rule descriptions, WAF exception notes, DNS record comments, and Worker documentation.

How to dictate in Cloudflare Dashboard

Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Cloudflare Dashboard:

1

Get Typally running

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

2

Click into the right box in Cloudflare Dashboard first

Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Cloudflare Dashboard decides where the text lands, not Typally.

3

Speak with the key held down

Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.

4

Read it before you move on

API tokens and secrets appear in this dashboard. Never dictate a token value.

What Typally adds in Cloudflare Dashboard

Typally types into the Cloudflare dashboard's description and comment fields, so the reason a rule exists is captured when you add it. It works the same in your editor for Worker comments, which is where the more detailed explanation usually belongs.

What this looks like in practice

Someone auditing a zone adds a spoken comment to each of thirty-one DNS records. Fourteen point at services that no longer exist, and removing them takes the zone from confusing to legible.

One habit that makes it work better

Describe every WAF exception with what it unblocks and when it can be reviewed. Exceptions added 'temporarily' outlive everyone who remembers them.

What to watch out for in Cloudflare Dashboard

API tokens and secrets appear in this dashboard. Never dictate a token value.

Frequently asked questions

Does Cloudflare's dashboard have dictation?

No. All fields are typed.

Why comment DNS records?

Because a record with no comment is a record nobody will remove, even years after the service behind it is gone.

Can I dictate Worker code?

Comment it by voice; type the JavaScript.

Try it in Cloudflare Dashboard

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