Dictate in any app · Publishing
Medium's editor is clean and empty, which is exactly what makes it intimidating. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Medium accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Medium has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None. The editor is deliberately minimal with no speech input.
Medium removed every distraction, leaving a cursor blinking on white. For many people that is harder to start than a cluttered page — there is nothing to fiddle with instead of writing.
In practice people use it for: Article drafts, responses to other posts, publication submissions, and the personal essay that has been half-written for months.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Medium:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Medium decides where the text lands, not Typally.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
Medium converts certain typed characters into formatting and its paste handling can carry unwanted styles. Paste as plain text.
Typally works best beside Medium rather than inside it — speak the draft into a plain editor, then paste. Medium's formatting shortcuts fire on dictated punctuation, and its editor is built for polishing rather than drafting. The blank white page is the problem; a rough spoken draft removes it.
An essay that has been sitting at four hundred words since spring gets finished in one twenty-minute spoken pass. It is far too long and repeats itself twice, which is a much better problem than the one it had for six months.
Dictate the article somewhere else and paste it in. Medium's editor is built for polishing, and polishing is the wrong activity for a first draft.
Medium converts certain typed characters into formatting and its paste handling can carry unwanted styles. Paste as plain text.
No. The editor has no speech input.
Yes. The response box is a normal text field.
Drafting elsewhere is usually easier — Medium's formatting shortcuts can fire on dictated punctuation.
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