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Voice typing in HiBob

HiBob is culture-led HR software, and culture is communicated in writing. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into HiBob without you touching the keyboard.

Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what HiBob already does without talking you out of using it.
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In short

  • HiBob's own dictation: None. Announcements, notes and review fields are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: behaves like a keyboard, so it reaches parts of HiBob a built-in feature would not.
  • Best used for: company announcements

Does HiBob have built-in dictation?

None. Announcements, notes and review fields are typed.

Why dictate in HiBob at all?

A platform built around engagement and communication only works if someone writes the communications. Announcements, shoutouts and updates all fall to a small people team already running payroll and hiring.

In practice people use it for: Company announcements, policy documents, performance review text, and onboarding content.

How to dictate in HiBob

You do not configure anything in HiBob. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:

1

Set Typally up once

One install, one sign-in. Nothing else to configure.

2

Put the cursor in the HiBob field you are filling

Text goes wherever HiBob has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.

3

Press and speak

Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.

4

Read it before you move on

Personal data protections apply to employee records. Keep dictation to company-level content.

What Typally adds in HiBob

Typally types into HiBob's announcement and document fields, so internal communication stops being the thing that slips when the week gets busy. Speaking naturally produces the informal register internal comms need and formal drafting keeps destroying.

What this looks like in practice

A people lead records the monthly company update by speaking it rather than drafting it. It goes out on time for the first quarter running, and the open rate goes up because it sounds like a person.

One habit that makes it work better

Write announcements the way you would say them at an all-hands. Internal comms written in formal register are the ones nobody reads.

What to watch out for in HiBob

Personal data protections apply to employee records. Keep dictation to company-level content.

Frequently asked questions

Does HiBob have dictation?

No. Its fields are typed.

What internal comms benefit most?

Announcements and policy explanations — anything read by everyone and written by one person.

Can I dictate performance reviews?

The structure yes, but employee data is sensitive; consider your obligations before dictating specifics about a person.

Try it in HiBob

There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.

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