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Emacs users write a lot of prose in Org mode, and prose is where dictation pays. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Emacs accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Emacs's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.None as standard, though the ecosystem includes speech packages of varying maturity.
Org mode makes Emacs a serious writing and planning environment, not just an editor. Agendas, notes, literate programming documents and research files are all prose that has to be typed.
In practice people use it for: Org mode notes and agendas, literate programming prose blocks, commit messages, and long documents.
There is no Emacs extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
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Click first. Typally types into Emacs wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Emacs treats many characters as prefix commands depending on mode. Confirm you are in a normal editing buffer before dictating.
Typally types into whatever buffer has focus, which makes it a natural fit for Org mode's prose-heavy workflow. Dictate the explanation blocks in a literate document and type the code blocks — Org makes that boundary explicit. Confirm you are in a normal editing buffer first, since many keys are prefix commands.
A researcher keeping her project in Org mode dictates the daily log entry — what she tried, what failed, what to do tomorrow — in about forty seconds. The log is the thing that makes the eventual paper writable, and it only exists because it stopped being a typing job.
Dictate the prose blocks in a literate document and type the code blocks. The two need completely different input methods, and Org mode makes the boundary explicit.
Emacs treats many characters as prefix commands depending on mode. Confirm you are in a normal editing buffer before dictating.
Not built in. Packages exist; a system-level tool needs no configuration.
Very — Org is mostly prose, which is what dictation is good at.
Dictate the explanation blocks, type the code blocks.
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