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Voice typing in Poe

Poe exists to switch between models, which makes one reusable prompt the whole point. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Poe exactly where your cursor was.

From the people who build Typally. If Poe's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.
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In short

  • Poe's own dictation: None specific to composing.
  • What Typally does instead: behaves like a keyboard, so it reaches parts of Poe a built-in feature would not.
  • Best used for: prompts sent to multiple bots

Does Poe have built-in dictation?

None specific to composing. The message box is a standard input.

Why dictate in Poe at all?

Using several models means writing the prompt several times, or writing it once badly and reusing it. A prompt worth comparing across models is a prompt worth spending two minutes on, and typing makes two minutes feel expensive.

In practice people use it for: Prompts sent to multiple bots, follow-ups, comparing outputs, and building custom bot instructions.

How to dictate in Poe

Setup happens once, outside Poe, and then applies to every program on the machine:

1

Set Typally up once

One install, one sign-in. Nothing else to configure.

2

Click into the right box in Poe first

Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Poe before starting.

3

Press and speak

Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.

4

Read it before you move on

Enter sends. Compose long prompts elsewhere if your dictation appends returns.

What Typally adds in Poe

Typally types the same prompt into each bot, which is what makes a model comparison mean anything — retyping produces subtly different prompts and therefore meaningless results. Speak it once into a scratch file, then send the identical text everywhere.

What this looks like in practice

Someone choosing a model for a summarisation task speaks one long prompt with three sample documents' worth of context, then runs it through five bots unchanged. The differences that show up are actually the models.

One habit that makes it work better

Dictate the prompt once into a scratch file, then send the same text to each bot. Identical inputs are the only way the comparison means anything.

What to watch out for in Poe

Enter sends. Compose long prompts elsewhere if your dictation appends returns.

Frequently asked questions

Does Poe have voice input?

The message box is a standard text input. Dictation comes from whatever tool you use.

What makes a fair model comparison?

The same prompt, sent to each. Retyping produces subtly different prompts and meaningless results.

Can I dictate custom bot instructions?

Yes — the instruction field is an ordinary text area and benefits from detail.

Try it in Poe

You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.

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