Dictate in any app · Chat
Google Chat has no dictation, despite living beside Docs where Google does offer it. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Google Chat accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
Written by the team behind Typally. Google Chat's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.Nothing. Voice typing exists in Docs and Slides but was never extended to Chat.
Chat inherits Gmail's problem: high volume, short messages, and long explanations that get abandoned. It also sits in the same browser tab as work you are already doing, so switching to a phone to dictate is absurd.
In practice people use it for: Space messages, thread replies, DMs, and the status update that saves a meeting.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Google Chat, setup is the same everywhere:
One install, one sign-in. Nothing else to configure.
Make sure Google Chat has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Enter sends. Use Shift+Enter for line breaks in anything longer than a sentence.
Typally types into the Chat composer whether it is its own tab or embedded in Gmail, so the explanation that would otherwise become a meeting can be written in the time you have between meetings. Use a thread for anything long — Enter sends in the main composer.
Someone asked in a space why a report shows different numbers than last week. The full answer involves a changed date filter and a re-run. Spoken, it takes thirty seconds and settles the question; typed, it would have been 'let's chat tomorrow'.
Write the longer message in a thread rather than the main space. It gives you room to say the whole thing without cluttering the channel.
Enter sends. Use Shift+Enter for line breaks in anything longer than a sentence.
No. Google's voice typing is limited to Docs and Slides speaker notes.
Yes. Whether Chat is its own tab or embedded in Gmail, a system-level tool types into the focused box.
Yes — spaces, threads and DMs are all ordinary text inputs.
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