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NetBeans is still taught and still shipped, and its docs are still typed by hand. Typally puts your words into NetBeans the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Written by the team behind Typally. NetBeans's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None. All text entry is typed.
NetBeans users are frequently students or maintainers of long-lived projects. Both write more prose than they expect — assignment write-ups in one case, handover documentation in the other.
In practice people use it for: Javadoc, commit messages, project README files, and assignment write-ups alongside the code.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into NetBeans, setup is the same everywhere:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Make sure NetBeans has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
Auto-completion and auto-closing brackets react to every inserted character, so keep dictation to comments and plain files.
Typally types into whatever field has focus, so the same hotkey covers NetBeans, your browser and your email. Custom vocabulary handles the library names that general speech models turn into nonsense, which is what usually makes dictated technical writing not worth the correction.
A student writing up a coursework project dictates the design rationale into a markdown file while the decisions are fresh. The write-up, usually the part rushed the night before, is largely done before the code is finished.
Keep a plain markdown file open beside the project and dictate design notes into it as you go. The notes you make while deciding are the ones nobody writes afterwards.
Auto-completion and auto-closing brackets react to every inserted character, so keep dictation to comments and plain files.
No. It has no dictation feature.
Yes — plain markdown files are the easiest place to dictate in any IDE.
Yes, it is an ordinary text field.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
Also dictate in: Eclipse · IntelliJ IDEA · Jupyter Notebook · see all apps