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Voice typing in Lever

Recruiting is a writing job disguised as a people job. Typally types what you say straight into Lever — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Lever lets you type.

From the people who build Typally. If Lever's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.
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In short

  • Lever's own dictation: None. Notes, feedback and outreach templates are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: types into the focused window, so it works in Lever and everywhere else you write.
  • Best used for: candidate notes

Does Lever have built-in dictation?

None. Notes, feedback and outreach templates are typed.

Why dictate in Lever at all?

Recruiters write all day — outreach, notes, feedback, updates to hiring managers — and the volume forces templates. Templated outreach gets templated response rates, and everyone knows it.

In practice people use it for: Candidate notes, interview feedback, personalised outreach, and hiring manager updates.

How to dictate in Lever

Setup happens once, outside Lever, and then applies to every program on the machine:

1

Get Typally running

Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.

2

Open Lever and click where you want the text

Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Lever before starting.

3

Speak with the key held down

Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.

4

Read it before you move on

Candidate data is personal data. Transcription involves a third-party processor, which needs to be consistent with your privacy notice.

What Typally adds in Lever

Typally types into candidate notes, feedback fields and outreach messages, so the one personalised sentence about what someone actually built costs about fifteen seconds. That sentence is what stops outreach reading like a mail merge. Candidate data is personal data — audio is processed by a third party first.

What this looks like in practice

A recruiter adds one spoken sentence to each outreach message referencing something the person actually built. The messages take fifteen seconds longer each and stop reading like a mail merge.

One habit that makes it work better

Dictate the personalised sentence in outreach even when the rest is a template. One specific line about the person's actual work outperforms an entirely templated message.

What to watch out for in Lever

Candidate data is personal data. Transcription involves a third-party processor, which needs to be consistent with your privacy notice.

Frequently asked questions

Does Lever have dictation?

No. All text entry is typed.

Does personalised outreach actually work better?

Recruiters generally report it does. We have not measured it, so treat that as industry experience rather than a claim from us.

Can I dictate interview feedback in Lever?

Yes technically. Whether candidate data should pass through a third-party transcription service is a privacy decision to make first.

Try it in Lever

Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.

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