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Perplexity answers questions, and a well-specified question is longer than people type. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Perplexity exactly where your cursor was.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Perplexity already does without talking you out of using it.Voice features in the apps for conversational search. The desktop text box is where considered queries get composed.
Search habits are short — three keywords, decades of training. Perplexity works far better with a full question including what you already know and what you are trying to decide, which nobody types because it feels like too much effort.
In practice people use it for: Research questions with context, follow-ups that narrow an answer, comparing options, and checking a claim before citing it.
You do not configure anything in Perplexity. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Text goes wherever Perplexity has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
Enter submits. Compose long questions carefully if your tool inserts returns at sentence ends.
Typally types into the query box, so asking the real question — team size, budget, constraints, what you already ruled out — is no more effort than three keywords. Specific questions retrieve specific sources, and typing is the reason most people ask the broad version instead.
Instead of searching 'best project tool', someone speaks the real question: eleven people, two of them contractors, needs to integrate with an existing calendar, budget under a hundred a month, previously abandoned two other tools for a stated reason. The answer is finally about their situation.
Ask the whole question including why you are asking. 'Best CRM' returns a listicle; the spoken version with your team size, budget and constraints returns something usable.
Enter submits. Compose long questions carefully if your tool inserts returns at sentence ends.
Its apps offer voice interaction. Dictating into the text box instead gives you an editable query.
Generally the more specific the question, the more specific the sources it finds.
Yes — the follow-up box is an ordinary text input.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
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