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Voice typing in Miro

Miro boards fill with three-word sticky notes that mean nothing a month later. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Miro accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.

Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Miro's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.
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In short

  • Miro's own dictation: None. Sticky notes, text boxes and comments are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: types into the focused window, so it works in Miro and everywhere else you write.
  • Best used for: sticky notes with real content

Does Miro have built-in dictation?

None. Sticky notes, text boxes and comments are typed.

Why dictate in Miro at all?

Workshops move fast, so notes are short by necessity. The board looks full and productive on the day, and when someone opens it in March the stickies are unreadable fragments of a conversation nobody recorded.

In practice people use it for: Sticky notes with real content, comments, board documentation, and the summary text box that explains what a cluster means.

How to dictate in Miro

There is no Miro extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:

1

Get Typally running

Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.

2

Focus the Miro field you want the words in

Click first. Typally types into Miro wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.

3

Speak with the key held down

Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.

4

Read it before you move on

Double-clicking the canvas creates a new sticky. Dictating after a misplaced click leaves text floating loose on the board.

What Typally adds in Miro

Typally types into text boxes and comment threads, so the five minutes after a workshop can turn sixty cryptic stickies into a board someone who was not in the room can read. Open the text box first; double-clicking the canvas creates a new sticky and strands the text.

What this looks like in practice

A two-hour workshop produces sixty stickies. In the five minutes after everyone leaves, the facilitator speaks one summary box per cluster. When the board is reopened for the follow-up, nobody has to reconstruct what 'trust??' meant.

One habit that makes it work better

After the workshop, add one dictated text box per cluster explaining what it was about. Five minutes of speech makes the board useful to people who were not in the room.

What to watch out for in Miro

Double-clicking the canvas creates a new sticky. Dictating after a misplaced click leaves text floating loose on the board.

Frequently asked questions

Does Miro have voice input?

No. All text on a board is typed.

Can I dictate into Miro comments?

Yes. Open the comment thread and click into the box.

Is dictation practical during a live workshop?

Better immediately after. During a session you are usually talking to the room already.

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