Dictate in any app · Education
LaTeX is the worst possible thing to dictate, and academic prose is among the best. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Overleaf exactly where your cursor was.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Overleaf is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.None. Overleaf's editor is a LaTeX source pane in a browser.
A paper is maybe fifteen per cent markup and eighty-five per cent sentences. The markup is unspeakable — backslashes, braces, environments — but the sentences are ordinary academic English, and there are thousands of them.
In practice people use it for: Paragraph text inside sections, abstracts, discussion sections, reviewer responses, and comments to co-authors.
Nothing changes inside Overleaf itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
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The cursor position is the whole instruction — Overleaf routes the keystrokes from there.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
A dictated backslash or brace lands as literal LaTeX and can break compilation in ways that are hard to spot in a long document.
Typally types into the LaTeX source pane, so the eighty-five per cent of a paper that is ordinary academic prose can be spoken. Build the section skeleton with its environments first, then dictate paragraphs into the gaps — a spoken backslash or brace lands literally and breaks compilation in ways that are hard to find.
A PhD student builds the section skeleton on Monday and spends the week talking paragraphs into it. The discussion chapter reaches four thousand words in five days, having sat at nine hundred for a month.
Set up the document skeleton with all the environments and section commands first, then dictate paragraphs into the gaps. Never mix the two activities.
A dictated backslash or brace lands as literal LaTeX and can break compilation in ways that are hard to spot in a long document.
Not practically. Type the markup, dictate the prose between it.
The discussion and introduction sections are ordinary prose at length, which is exactly where it helps.
Yes — comments to co-authors are plain text fields.
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