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LinkedIn posts read better dictated, because spoken language is less stiff than written business English. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in LinkedIn exactly where your cursor was.
Written by the team behind Typally. LinkedIn's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.Nothing on desktop. The mobile app uses the phone keyboard's microphone.
People type differently on LinkedIn than they speak, and almost always worse — more jargon, more hedging, more throat-clearing before the point. The blank composer invites performance in a way that talking does not.
In practice people use it for: Posts, long comments on someone else's post, connection request notes, and replies to recruiters or candidates.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into LinkedIn, setup is the same everywhere:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Make sure LinkedIn has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
LinkedIn's composer collapses consecutive blank lines and handles line breaks unpredictably. Dictate the text, then add line breaks by hand.
Typally types into the desktop composer, where LinkedIn offers nothing of its own. Spoken sentences are shorter and more direct than typed business English, which is the opposite of most LinkedIn writing's problem. The cleanup pass keeps it professional without making it stiff again.
A founder wants to post about a launch that went badly. Typed, it comes out defensive and full of hedging. Spoken, it comes out the way he would tell it in a pub — what broke, what it cost, what he would do differently. He deletes the first sentence, adds line breaks, and posts.
Say the post as if telling a colleague what happened. Then delete the first sentence — it is almost always warm-up, and cutting it usually makes the post better.
LinkedIn's composer collapses consecutive blank lines and handles line breaks unpredictably. Dictate the text, then add line breaks by hand.
No. The mobile apps rely on the phone keyboard's microphone; the desktop site has no dictation of its own.
Yes. Click into the message box first — a system-level tool types wherever the cursor is.
Usually the opposite. Spoken sentences are shorter and more direct; most LinkedIn writing suffers from being too formal, not too casual.
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