Dictate in any app · Presentations
Google Slides has voice typing for speaker notes specifically — a genuinely useful and little-known feature. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Google Slides exactly where your cursor was.
From the people who build Typally. If Google Slides's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.Tools → Voice type speaker notes, which is scoped to the notes pane rather than the slides themselves, and is Chrome-only like the rest of Google's voice typing.
The built-in tool covers the one place it is most needed, but it stops when the tab loses focus and does nothing for slide text, which means switching methods depending on which box you are in.
In practice people use it for: Speaker notes, rehearsal transcripts, the narrative you will actually say, and long text boxes on appendix slides.
Setup happens once, outside Google Slides, 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 Google Slides before starting.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Voice typing in Slides only fills speaker notes. Text boxes on the slide itself need something that types wherever the cursor is.
Typally covers slide text boxes, which Google's speaker-notes voice typing does not reach, and keeps working when the tab loses focus. Use whichever suits the box you are in — the built-in feature is genuinely good for notes, and Typally handles everything else on the slide plus every other app you have open.
A conference speaker runs her talk twice with voice typing capturing the speaker notes, then edits the second run into the final version. The notes end up matching what she really says on stage rather than the tidier script she never followed.
Rehearse into the speaker notes rather than writing them. What you say when practising is nearly always better than what you would have written.
Voice typing in Slides only fills speaker notes. Text boxes on the slide itself need something that types wherever the cursor is.
Yes, for speaker notes: Tools → Voice type speaker notes. It is Chrome-only and does not fill slide text boxes.
It listens only while the tab is focused, the same limitation as voice typing in Google Docs.
The built-in feature will not. A system-level tool types into whichever box has focus, including slide text.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
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