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Voice typing in Outreach

Sales engagement platforms multiply your message volume, which multiplies the writing. Typally puts your words into Outreach the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.

Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Outreach already does without talking you out of using it.
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In short

  • Outreach's own dictation: AI features that draft and summarise.
  • What Typally does instead: covers Outreach and every other program on the machine with one hotkey.
  • Best used for: sequence email copy

Does Outreach have built-in dictation?

AI features that draft and summarise. No dictation of your own speech.

Why dictate in Outreach at all?

Sequences send at scale, and scale makes personalisation expensive. So everyone uses the same template, prospects recognise it instantly, and reply rates fall for everyone.

In practice people use it for: Sequence email copy, personalised opening lines, call notes and dispositions, and internal deal context.

How to dictate in Outreach

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

1

Start with the install

Windows or macOS build, signed in once.

2

In Outreach, click the field before you speak

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

3

Hold the hotkey and talk

Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.

4

Read it before you move on

Outreach's task flow moves quickly between prospects. Confirm you are on the right record before dictating.

What Typally adds in Outreach

Typally types the personalised line straight into the sequence editor, which is the only part of an automated message that has to be written by a human. The cleanup pass keeps it polished, so a spoken sentence does not look spoken.

What this looks like in practice

A rep adds one spoken sentence about each prospect's recent announcement to the first email in the sequence. The messages take fifteen seconds longer each and stop looking like a mail merge.

One habit that makes it work better

Personalise the first line and leave the rest templated. One specific spoken sentence about the prospect's actual situation is what stops the message reading as automated.

What to watch out for in Outreach

Outreach's task flow moves quickly between prospects. Confirm you are on the right record before dictating.

Frequently asked questions

Does Outreach have speech-to-text?

Its AI drafts and summarises rather than transcribing your speech.

Does personalisation actually change reply rates?

Sales teams widely report that it does. We have not measured it, so treat that as industry experience rather than our claim.

Can I dictate call dispositions?

Yes — the notes field is a standard text input.

Try it in Outreach

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