Dictate in any app · Docs
Paper is built for collaborative documents, where the comments matter as much as the text. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Dropbox Paper accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
Written by the team behind Typally. Dropbox Paper's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None. The document and comment fields are typed.
Collaborative docs generate two streams of writing: the document itself and the discussion in the margins. The margin discussion is where decisions actually get made, and it is written in a hurry.
In practice people use it for: Meeting notes, project docs, inline comments, task lists with context, and the summary at the top nobody writes.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Dropbox Paper, setup is the same everywhere:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Make sure Dropbox Paper has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.
Paper converts typed characters into formatting aggressively — dashes into bullets, numbers into lists — so dictated text can restructure itself.
Typally types into the Paper document and its comment boxes, so the two-line summary at the top — the part collaborators actually read — takes seconds. Dictate into a plain paragraph and let Paper's formatting come afterwards, since its aggressive character conversions will otherwise restructure what you said.
A doc that had been circulating for a week with no decision gets a spoken two-line summary at the top saying what is actually being asked and by when. Three people respond the same afternoon.
Dictate a two-line summary at the top of every doc. Collaborators read the first paragraph and skim the rest, so that paragraph does most of the work.
Paper converts typed characters into formatting aggressively — dashes into bullets, numbers into lists — so dictated text can restructure itself.
No. All text entry is typed.
Yes. Select the text and click into the comment box first.
Yes, though each task is its own line — add the structure by hand.
Start on the free plan (100 minutes a month, no card). Pro lifts the cap and adds meeting notes for $7.99/month.
Also dictate in: Google Docs · Notion · Confluence · see all apps