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Messenger on desktop has no dictation, so the mic button records audio instead. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Facebook Messenger exactly where your cursor was.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Facebook Messenger is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.Voice clips. The desktop web version has no speech-to-text for the composer.
Messenger conversations are casual and constant, and the desktop version is used while doing something else. Typing competes for the same hands that are already busy.
In practice people use it for: Replies to friends and family, group chats, marketplace messages, and coordinating events.
Nothing changes inside Facebook Messenger itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
The cursor position is the whole instruction — Facebook Messenger routes the keystrokes from there.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
Enter sends. Messenger's composer is compact, so a long dictated message can post in pieces if returns get inserted.
Typally types into the Messenger web composer, so marketplace and family replies stop being one-word answers that generate four follow-ups. The cleanup pass keeps it readable, and because it types into the focused window, the same key works in every other tab you have open.
Someone selling a bike gets the same three questions from every buyer. Instead of typing short answers all evening, they dictate the full description once — condition, size, why they are selling, when they are free — and paste variations of it to each person.
Dictate marketplace and business replies in full. A complete answer to 'is this still available' saves the four-message exchange that follows a one-word reply.
Enter sends. Messenger's composer is compact, so a long dictated message can post in pieces if returns get inserted.
Not in the composer. Its microphone records a voice clip.
Yes. A system-level tool types into the focused browser tab.
Yes, and it is one of the better uses — full answers reduce the back-and-forth.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
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