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Voice typing in LiveChat

LiveChat agents are measured on response time, which pushes replies toward being too short. Typally types what you say straight into LiveChat — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere LiveChat lets you type.

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

  • LiveChat's own dictation: Canned responses and AI features by plan.
  • What Typally does instead: behaves like a keyboard, so it reaches parts of LiveChat a built-in feature would not.
  • Best used for: chat replies

Does LiveChat have built-in dictation?

Canned responses and AI features by plan. No dictation.

Why dictate in LiveChat at all?

Response-time targets reward speed over completeness, so agents send fast partial answers. The customer then asks the same question differently, and the conversation takes longer than a complete first reply would have.

In practice people use it for: Chat replies, canned response libraries, internal notes, and post-chat summaries.

How to dictate in LiveChat

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

1

Set Typally up once

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

2

Open LiveChat and click where you want the text

Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — LiveChat 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

Enter sends. Compose anything long with that in mind, or draft it in the notes field first.

What Typally adds in LiveChat

Typally types into the chat composer and the canned response editor equally. Its cleanup pass matters in live chat more than most places: what you say arrives punctuated and filler-free, which is the difference between fast and sloppy.

What this looks like in practice

An agent rewrites the twenty most-used canned responses by speaking them aloud. They stop sounding like policy extracts, and the team's satisfaction scores move without anyone changing the underlying answers.

One habit that makes it work better

Build canned responses for the policy and speak the specifics. That combination is both fast and specific, which the metrics and the customer each want.

What to watch out for in LiveChat

Enter sends. Compose anything long with that in mind, or draft it in the notes field first.

Frequently asked questions

Does LiveChat have dictation?

No. Composing is typed.

Does dictation help with response times?

It shortens composing. Whether that moves the metric depends on where the delay actually is.

Can I dictate canned responses?

Yes, and speaking them tends to produce warmer phrasing than typing does.

Try it in LiveChat

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

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