Dictate in any app · Chat
Discord is built for voice chat but has no way to turn speech into a text message. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Discord without you touching the keyboard.
From the people who build Typally. If Discord's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.Voice channels and voice messages, both of which produce audio. There is no feature that types what you say into the message box.
Communities live in text. Long explanations, help answers and announcements are all typing, often while a game or another app is in the foreground and you would rather not stop what you are doing.
In practice people use it for: Answering questions in help channels, writing announcements, explaining something properly instead of linking a video, and long replies in a community you moderate.
Setup happens once, outside Discord, 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 Discord before starting.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Enter sends in Discord. Use Shift+Enter for multi-line messages, and check whether your dictation inserts returns on sentence breaks.
Typally types into whichever Discord box has focus, so a proper help-channel answer costs about as long as saying it. The cleanup pass removes the false starts, and because there is no time limit on the recording, the complete answer is no harder to produce than a fragment. Mind the Enter-sends behaviour on long messages.
A moderator answers the same setup question for the fifth time this month. Rather than another terse reply, he dictates the full walkthrough in one message. It gets pinned, and the sixth person finds it in search instead of asking again.
Dictate help answers in full rather than in fragments. The complete answer gets found by search and by the next person with the same question; three short messages do not.
Enter sends in Discord. Use Shift+Enter for multi-line messages, and check whether your dictation inserts returns on sentence breaks.
No. Discord's voice features produce audio — voice channels and voice messages — not text in the message box.
It can, but both are using your microphone. Push-to-talk on one side and a push-to-talk dictation hotkey on the other avoids talking to both at once.
A global hotkey works in most setups, though full-screen exclusive mode can block overlays and shortcuts. Borderless windowed mode is more reliable.
There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.
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