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IntelliJ is dense with shortcuts, and everything you write for humans is still typed. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere IntelliJ IDEA accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
Written by the team behind Typally. IntelliJ IDEA's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None. Plugins exist for voice control, aimed at navigation rather than composing prose.
Java and Kotlin projects carry heavy documentation expectations — Javadoc, architecture notes, commit messages. All of it is prose, and none of it is what the IDE optimises.
In practice people use it for: Javadoc comments, commit messages in the VCS panel, TODO explanations, and AI assistant prompts.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into IntelliJ IDEA, setup is the same everywhere:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Make sure IntelliJ IDEA has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
IntelliJ's live templates and auto-completion fire on inserted characters, so dictating into a code file triggers completions. Use the commit box or a comment block.
Typally types into the commit dialog, Javadoc blocks and the AI assistant prompt, all from one key. Custom vocabulary keeps class and library names intact rather than phonetically guessed. Keep it out of source files, where IntelliJ's live templates and completion react to every inserted character.
A developer finishing a complicated service class dictates the class-level Javadoc: what problem it solves, what it deliberately does not handle, and which other class to look at. The next person to open it does not need to ask anyone.
Dictate the Javadoc explaining why a method exists, then type the parameter tags. The prose part is what nobody writes and the tags are what tooling generates anyway.
IntelliJ's live templates and auto-completion fire on inserted characters, so dictating into a code file triggers completions. Use the commit box or a comment block.
Not usefully. Dictation is for the prose — docs, commits, prompts — not for symbol-dense code.
Yes. It is a plain text box, and it is one of the better places to use it.
Yes — PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand and the rest share the same editor platform.
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