Dictate in any app · Docs
Coda merges documents and databases, and both halves need explaining. Typally types what you say straight into Coda — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Coda lets you type.
From the people who build Typally. If Coda's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.None. Text in docs, tables and canvas columns is typed.
A Coda doc that automates a team's process is powerful and opaque. The formulas encode decisions nobody wrote down, and the text columns meant to explain them stay empty.
In practice people use it for: Doc narrative sections, table detail columns, process documentation, and the explanation of what a formula does.
Setup happens once, outside Coda, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Windows or macOS build, signed in once.
Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Coda before starting.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Coda's editor responds to slash commands, so a dictated slash opens the command menu mid-sentence.
Typally types into Coda's doc sections and table detail columns, so the text column explaining what a formula is for stops being empty. Open the row first so you are writing into a proper text area rather than a cramped cell, and the explanation lands as clean prose next to the thing it explains.
A team's hiring doc runs on eleven formulas built by someone who has since left. A colleague spends an hour dictating what each one is for into a description column, and the doc becomes maintainable again.
Document what a formula is for in a text column beside it. Coda docs outlive the person who built them and formulas do not explain themselves.
Coda's editor responds to slash commands, so a dictated slash opens the command menu mid-sentence.
No. All text entry is typed.
Yes. Open the row so the field is a proper text area rather than a cramped cell.
Mobile uses the phone keyboard's microphone; desktop is where a separate tool applies.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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