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OBS handles the broadcast; everything the audience reads is written elsewhere. Typally puts your words into OBS Studio the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about OBS Studio is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.None. It is broadcasting software with no text authoring features.
Streamers and video producers configure OBS once and then spend their time on the content around it — titles, descriptions, scene documentation, community posts. None of that lives in OBS, and all of it is typed.
In practice people use it for: Scene and setup documentation, stream titles and descriptions, community posts, and text sources on screen.
Nothing changes inside OBS Studio itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
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The cursor position is the whole instruction — OBS Studio routes the keystrokes from there.
The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.
Your microphone may be live to the stream or recording. Dictating on air broadcasts it.
Typally is for the writing around the broadcast — scene documentation, stream titles, community posts — none of which lives in OBS. Documenting your scene setup is worth ten spoken minutes: OBS profiles are fragile, and rebuilding one from memory after a crash costs a weekend. Do it off-air, since OBS captures your microphone.
A streamer whose OBS profile was corrupted rebuilds it in twenty minutes from a spoken setup document written months earlier. The previous time, the same accident cost most of a weekend.
Document your scene setup somewhere in writing. OBS configurations are fragile and rebuilding one from memory after a crash is miserable.
Your microphone may be live to the stream or recording. Dictating on air broadcasts it.
It can display text sources on screen, but it does not author or transcribe anything.
Your microphone is captured by OBS, so it would go out live. Do it off-air.
Scene structure, audio routing and which sources depend on external files — the things that break and are hard to rebuild.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
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