Dictate in any app · Finance

Voice typing in NetSuite

NetSuite is configured to within an inch of its life, and nobody documents why. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere NetSuite accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.

Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what NetSuite already does without talking you out of using it.
Dictate into NetSuite Free on Windows and macOS. No payment details needed to start.
Try Typally free

In short

  • NetSuite's own dictation: None. Memo, note and description fields are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: puts text wherever the cursor is, in NetSuite or in anything else you have open.
  • Best used for: transaction memos

Does NetSuite have built-in dictation?

None. Memo, note and description fields are typed.

Why dictate in NetSuite at all?

ERP systems accumulate customisations, each made for a reason that lived in one person's head. When that person leaves, the configuration becomes archaeology, and the note fields that could have explained it are empty.

In practice people use it for: Transaction memos, customer and vendor notes, workflow documentation, and the explanation attached to a customisation.

How to dictate in NetSuite

You do not configure anything in NetSuite. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:

1

Download and sign in

Grab the build for your platform and create an account.

2

Focus the NetSuite field you want the words in

Text goes wherever NetSuite has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.

3

Talk while holding the key

The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.

4

Read it before you move on

NetSuite forms are long and some submit on Enter. Confirm the field before speaking and check the text landed before saving.

What Typally adds in NetSuite

Typally types into memo, note and description fields across the NetSuite interface, so the reasoning behind an unusual configuration gets recorded next to it. ERP customisations outlive the people who make them by years, and a spoken sentence at the time is the only version that ever gets written.

What this looks like in practice

A finance systems manager leaving the company spends her last afternoon dictating the reasoning behind fourteen custom workflows into their description fields. Her replacement's first quarter is measurably less painful.

One habit that makes it work better

Whenever you configure something unusual, dictate why into the nearest note field. ERP configuration outlives the people who make it by years.

What to watch out for in NetSuite

NetSuite forms are long and some submit on Enter. Confirm the field before speaking and check the text landed before saving.

Frequently asked questions

Does NetSuite have dictation?

No. All fields are typed.

Where does documentation belong in NetSuite?

Note and memo fields close to the thing being explained, so it is found by whoever is looking at that record.

Does dictation work in the NetSuite interface?

Yes, it is browser-based, so a system-level tool types into its fields.

Try it in NetSuite

Start on the free plan (100 minutes a month, no card). Pro lifts the cap and adds meeting notes for $7.99/month.

Try Typally free

Also dictate in: Sage · Salesforce · Workday · Ramp · PayPal · see all apps