Dictate in any app · Docs
Confluence pages go unwritten because documentation is slow to type, not because nobody knows the content. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Confluence accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Confluence already does without talking you out of using it.None. The page editor has no speech input.
Internal documentation is always someone's second priority, so it loses to whatever is urgent. The person who knows the answer can explain it in two minutes out loud and will not spend twenty typing it.
In practice people use it for: Runbooks, onboarding pages, decision records, retrospective notes, and the how-does-this-work page that only exists in one colleague's head.
You do not configure anything in Confluence. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:
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Text goes wherever Confluence has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Confluence's editor converts markdown-ish characters into formatting as you type. Dictate prose first and apply structure afterwards.
Typally types into the Confluence editor directly, so the runbook that only exists in one colleague's head can be spoken in the time it takes to make coffee. Its cleanup pass turns an explanation into something publishable, which is what stops documentation drafts sitting unfinished for months.
The one engineer who understands the deploy process finally documents it — by talking through it as if onboarding someone new, in the time it takes to make coffee. The page is rough and needs editing, but it exists, which it had not for two years while it was a task that meant twenty minutes of typing.
Explain the page out loud as if onboarding a new teammate, then edit into sections. Documentation written this way is more useful than documentation written to look formal.
Confluence's editor converts markdown-ish characters into formatting as you type. Dictate prose first and apply structure afterwards.
No. The page editor is a rich-text field with no built-in dictation.
Yes. Open the comment box so it has focus, then dictate as normal.
After an edit, usually yes — and a spoken explanation tends to be clearer than formal prose written to impress.
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