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Voice typing in DaVinci Resolve

Resolve is a professional edit suite, and everything around the edit is still typed. Typally puts your words into DaVinci Resolve the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.

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In short

  • DaVinci Resolve's own dictation: Transcription features for footage in recent versions, aimed at editing by text rather than at authoring.
  • What Typally does instead: types into the focused window, so it works in DaVinci Resolve and everywhere else you write.
  • Best used for: project notes

Does DaVinci Resolve have built-in dictation?

Transcription features for footage in recent versions, aimed at editing by text rather than at authoring.

Why dictate in DaVinci Resolve at all?

Editors work in a timeline and communicate in prose — client notes, delivery specs, revision explanations. That writing happens at the end of a long session, usually badly.

In practice people use it for: Project notes, client revision replies, delivery notes, marker comments, and the description of a cut.

How to dictate in DaVinci Resolve

Nothing changes inside DaVinci Resolve itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:

1

Install Typally

Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.

2

In DaVinci Resolve, click the field before you speak

The cursor position is the whole instruction — DaVinci Resolve routes the keystrokes from there.

3

Hold the hotkey and talk

Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.

4

Read it before you move on

Resolve is shortcut-dense and most keys do something in the timeline. Make sure a text field has focus before speaking.

What Typally adds in DaVinci Resolve

Typally types into your email client, project notes and Resolve's marker comments, so client revision replies get answered point by point rather than with 'will do'. Make sure a text field has focus first — Resolve's single-key shortcuts mean stray input goes to the timeline instead.

What this looks like in practice

An editor replying to fourteen client revision notes answers each one specifically by voice rather than sending 'will do'. The next version comes back approved instead of generating another fourteen notes.

One habit that makes it work better

Dictate the reply to client revision notes point by point. Written revision exchanges are where projects go wrong, and vagueness costs a round of changes.

What to watch out for in DaVinci Resolve

Resolve is shortcut-dense and most keys do something in the timeline. Make sure a text field has focus before speaking.

Frequently asked questions

Does DaVinci Resolve transcribe footage?

Recent versions include transcription for text-based editing. That transcribes your footage, not your writing about it.

Where do editors benefit from dictation?

Client communication and project notes — the prose around the edit.

Can I dictate marker comments?

Yes. Open the marker and click into its notes field.

Try it in DaVinci Resolve

The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.

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