Dictate in any app · Email
Proton users chose it for privacy, so the honest question is what happens to the audio. Typally types what you say straight into Proton Mail — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Proton Mail lets you type.
From the people who build Typally. If Proton Mail's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.Nothing. Proton Mail has no dictation feature in the web or desktop apps.
Proton is picked deliberately by people who think about where their data goes. A dictation tool that sends audio to a third party is a real consideration, not a footnote, even though the email itself stays encrypted.
In practice people use it for: Private correspondence, work email for privacy-conscious businesses, and long replies that would otherwise be postponed.
Setup happens once, outside Proton Mail, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Proton Mail before starting.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
Proton's composer is a web app inside a container; some keyboard shortcuts differ from a normal browser tab. Click into the body explicitly.
Typally types into Proton's composer like a keyboard. The honest position: your email stays encrypted exactly as before, but audio goes to a transcription service on the way to becoming text. Most people split it — routine correspondence dictated, the two sensitive emails a week typed — and that line is easy to hold once decided.
A consultant handling client matters dictates the scheduling, invoicing and general correspondence — most of the inbox — and types the two emails a week that contain something confidential. The split takes no thought after the first week.
Split your habits by sensitivity. Dictating the routine ninety per cent and typing the sensitive ten is a workable compromise and most people land there anyway.
Proton's composer is a web app inside a container; some keyboard shortcuts differ from a normal browser tab. Click into the body explicitly.
No. The email is still encrypted the same way. But the audio goes to a transcription service before it becomes text, which is a separate question worth deciding deliberately.
No, in either the web app or the desktop app.
Proton runs in a browser there. Whether a dictation tool works depends on the tool — Typally ships for Windows and macOS.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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