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Voice typing in Riverside

Riverside records the interview and leaves the preparation and promotion to you. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Riverside accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.

Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Riverside already does without talking you out of using it.
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In short

  • Riverside's own dictation: Transcription and AI clip features that operate on your recording.
  • What Typally does instead: types into the focused window, so it works in Riverside and everywhere else you write.
  • Best used for: interview question preparation

Does Riverside have built-in dictation?

Transcription and AI clip features that operate on your recording.

Why dictate in Riverside at all?

A podcast episode needs research and questions before, and show notes, clips and social copy after. The recording is the middle third, and the platform's AI helps with the recording, not the writing either side of it.

In practice people use it for: Interview question preparation, guest outreach email, show notes, episode descriptions, and social copy for clips.

How to dictate in Riverside

Nothing changes inside Riverside itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:

1

Set Typally up once

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

2

Open Riverside and click where you want the text

Click first. Typally types into Riverside wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.

3

Hold the hotkey and talk

Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.

4

Read it before you move on

Riverside transcribes your recording. Preparing and promoting are separate writing jobs.

What Typally adds in Riverside

Typally types into your notes and email, covering both ends of the episode — the preparation before and the show notes after. Riverside's AI handles the recording; the writing either side of it is where dictation earns its place.

What this looks like in practice

A host speaks the question list for each guest instead of typing it. The interviews stop sounding like a form being worked through and start sounding like conversations.

One habit that makes it work better

Speak the question list rather than typing it. Questions you have said out loud sound like conversation; questions typed into a list sound like an interrogation.

What to watch out for in Riverside

Riverside transcribes your recording. Preparing and promoting are separate writing jobs.

Frequently asked questions

Does Riverside transcribe episodes?

Yes, it transcribes and clips your recordings. That is the audio, not your preparation or promotion.

Why dictate interview questions?

Because spoken questions sound conversational. Typed lists produce stilted interviews.

Can I dictate guest outreach?

Yes, and personalised outreach is what gets good guests to say yes.

Try it in Riverside

There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.

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