Dictate in any app · Social
Facebook posts and comments are all typing, and the desktop composer has no microphone. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Facebook without you touching the keyboard.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Facebook's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.Nothing for text. Voice clips exist in Messenger, not in the post composer.
Community groups run on long comments — advice, recommendations, local knowledge. Those are the posts that get read, and they are the ones people abandon because typing them takes ten minutes.
In practice people use it for: Group posts and comments, event descriptions, marketplace listings, and long replies to family.
There is no Facebook extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Click first. Typally types into Facebook wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
The composer submits on Enter in comment boxes but not in post boxes, which catches people out. Check which one you are in.
Typally types into the post and comment boxes on the desktop site, so the long, genuinely useful group answer — the one that gets screenshotted and reposted for years — costs about as long as saying it. The cleanup pass keeps it readable rather than leaving a wall of spoken filler.
Somebody asks in a local group for a plumber recommendation. Instead of just a name, one member dictates the whole thing: who, what it cost, what went wrong the first time, and the number. That comment gets referred back to for two years.
Dictate group answers in full. In local and hobby groups the detailed answer is the one that gets screenshotted and reposted for years.
The composer submits on Enter in comment boxes but not in post boxes, which catches people out. Check which one you are in.
No. The desktop composer has no dictation; mobile uses the phone keyboard's microphone.
Yes, and descriptions written this way tend to be more detailed, which reduces the questions you get.
Yes — post and comment boxes are ordinary text fields.
There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.
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