Dictate in any app · Chat
Teams captions meetings but does nothing for the message box, where most of the typing happens. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Microsoft Teams without you touching the keyboard.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Microsoft Teams has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.Live captions and meeting transcription, both aimed at spoken meetings. The chat compose box has no dictation of its own.
Teams chat carries the same load as Slack in a lot of companies, and it is where long explanations get shortened into something unhelpful because the person is between meetings.
In practice people use it for: Channel posts, replies in a thread, DMs, and the status update written between two calls.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Microsoft Teams:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Microsoft Teams decides where the text lands, not Typally.
The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.
Enter sends in the compact composer. Anything that inserts a return will post a partial message.
Typally types into the Teams composer, which has no dictation of its own — Teams' speech features caption meetings rather than help you write. Open the expanded composer before dictating anything long, since Enter sends in the compact one. The same key works in the meeting chat, though mute yourself first.
A manager between back-to-back calls owes the team a real answer about a deadline change. Rather than 'will explain later', she opens the expanded composer, talks for forty seconds, and posts three paragraphs the team can read without another meeting.
Use the Format button to open the expanded composer before dictating anything long. It stops Enter sending the message halfway through.
Enter sends in the compact composer. Anything that inserts a return will post a partial message.
No. Its speech features are meeting captions and transcription, which do not write into the chat box.
Yes, with a system-level tool — but the meeting is already using your microphone, so mute yourself or use push-to-talk carefully.
Yes. A browser tab is just another focused window.
There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.
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