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Rider is used for .NET and game development, both of which generate heavy documentation. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in JetBrains Rider exactly where your cursor was.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where JetBrains Rider has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None. Voice plugins target navigation rather than composition.
Unity projects especially accumulate scripts whose purpose is obvious on the day and cryptic by the next milestone. The comment explaining what a component expects is what stops a designer breaking it.
In practice people use it for: XML doc comments, commit messages, component documentation for Unity scripts, and pull request descriptions.
Setup happens once, outside JetBrains Rider, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Text goes wherever JetBrains Rider has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Rider's completion is aggressive and reacts to every character. Dictate into comment blocks, the commit dialog or a markdown file.
Typally types into Rider's comment blocks and commit dialog from the same hotkey you use in the browser and your email client. Its cleanup pass removes spoken filler, so a dictated doc comment reads like documentation rather than a transcript of someone thinking aloud.
A gameplay programmer adds three spoken lines to each of eleven components describing what they expect to find in the scene. The level designers stop filing bugs that turn out to be misconfigured prefabs.
Document what a script assumes about the scene it lives in. That assumption is invisible in code and is what breaks when someone reorganises a prefab.
Rider's completion is aggressive and reacts to every character. Dictate into comment blocks, the commit dialog or a markdown file.
No built-in feature. A system-level tool types into its text fields.
Yes, for the documentation around scripts — what a component expects and what breaks it.
No. Same editor platform, same behaviour.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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