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Voice typing in Lattice

Performance tools ask for written feedback constantly, and most of it is one line. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Lattice exactly where your cursor was.

We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Lattice has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.
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In short

  • Lattice's own dictation: None. Feedback, goal and review fields are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: works above the app rather than inside it — Lattice sees ordinary typed text.
  • Best used for: performance review narratives

Does Lattice have built-in dictation?

None. Feedback, goal and review fields are typed.

Why dictate in Lattice at all?

Continuous feedback tools generate frequent small writing tasks — a review here, a piece of feedback there, goal updates every quarter. Each is short enough to feel trivial and together they consume a manager's week.

In practice people use it for: Performance review narratives, peer feedback, goal descriptions, and one-to-one talking points.

How to dictate in Lattice

Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Lattice:

1

Install Typally

Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.

2

Click into the right box in Lattice first

Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Lattice decides where the text lands, not Typally.

3

Press and speak

Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.

4

Read it before you move on

Feedback about a named person is personal data, and in some jurisdictions the subject can request it. Write accordingly.

What Typally adds in Lattice

Typally types into Lattice's feedback and review fields, so attaching a real example costs about as long as remembering it. The specificity that makes feedback useful is precisely what typing effort strips out.

What this looks like in practice

A manager who used to write one-line feedback starts speaking three sentences with an example each time. Their reports say the reviews are the first ones they have found useful.

One habit that makes it work better

Give feedback with an example attached. 'Great communicator' helps nobody; the specific meeting where it mattered is what someone can repeat.

What to watch out for in Lattice

Feedback about a named person is personal data, and in some jurisdictions the subject can request it. Write accordingly.

Frequently asked questions

Does Lattice have voice input?

No. All fields are typed.

What makes feedback useful?

A specific example. Adjectives are unactionable and are what typing tends to produce.

Can I dictate one-to-one notes?

Yes, though notes about an individual are personal data and deserve the same care as any HR record.

Try it in Lattice

You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.

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