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Voice typing in Raycast

Raycast is built to remove friction from everything, which makes typing the outlier. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Raycast without you touching the keyboard.

Written by the team behind Typally. Raycast's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.
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In short

  • Raycast's own dictation: Extensions exist for many things, including AI features.
  • What Typally does instead: behaves like a keyboard, so it reaches parts of Raycast a built-in feature would not.
  • Best used for: quick notes

Does Raycast have built-in dictation?

Extensions exist for many things, including AI features. Speech input depends on what you install.

Why dictate in Raycast at all?

Raycast users optimise every interaction to a keystroke. The remaining slow part is anything requiring actual words — a note, an AI prompt, a snippet — and that is unavoidably typed.

In practice people use it for: Quick notes, AI prompts through its assistant, snippet creation, and capture into connected tools.

How to dictate in Raycast

Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Raycast:

1

Download and sign in

Grab the build for your platform and create an account.

2

Focus the Raycast field you want the words in

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

3

Press and speak

Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.

4

Read it before you move on

Raycast's window takes focus when summoned and dismisses easily. Confirm the input is focused before speaking.

What Typally adds in Raycast

Typally pairs naturally with Raycast: Raycast makes the capture surface appear instantly, Typally fills it in a few seconds. Together the friction between having a thought and having it written drops to roughly nothing, which is what both tools are for. Confirm the input has focus before speaking.

What this looks like in practice

Someone who lives in Raycast summons a note window and speaks into it in under five seconds total. The capture friction drops to roughly zero, which is the point of both tools.

One habit that makes it work better

Use Raycast to open the capture surface and dictation to fill it. Combining the two removes both halves of the friction.

What to watch out for in Raycast

Raycast's window takes focus when summoned and dismisses easily. Confirm the input is focused before speaking.

Frequently asked questions

Does Raycast support dictation?

Through extensions in some cases. A system-level tool works regardless of what you have installed.

Can I dictate into Raycast AI?

Yes — its prompt input is a text field.

Is it useful for quick capture?

Very. Raycast makes the surface appear instantly; dictation fills it in a few seconds.

Try it in Raycast

The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.

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