Dictate in any app · Browser
Safari on a Mac has the operating system's dictation behind it, which most people never enable. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Safari exactly where your cursor was.
Written by the team behind Typally. Safari's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.Nothing browser-specific, but macOS system dictation reaches Safari's text fields once switched on in Settings.
Mac users often do not realise system dictation exists at all, or tried it years ago when it was worse. Meanwhile everything they type happens in a browser window.
In practice people use it for: Web forms, webmail, web applications, comment fields, and Google Docs where Chrome-only features do not apply.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Safari:
Windows or macOS build, signed in once.
Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Safari before starting.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
Safari's own autofill and web apps' shortcuts both react to input. Click into the intended field before speaking.
Typally types into Safari's fields like a keyboard, which matters because the browser is where most of a Mac user's typing actually happens. macOS system dictation covers the same ground; where Typally differs is the AI cleanup pass and custom vocabulary. Google's Docs voice typing does not work in Safari at all, so this closes that gap.
A Mac user who assumed dictation meant a document app tries it in the browser instead, where most of the day's typing actually happens. The web-based ticketing tool that has no dictation of its own now accepts speech.
Whatever you use, the browser is where the volume is. Optimising dictation for a document app and ignoring the browser gets the priority backwards.
Safari's own autofill and web apps' shortcuts both react to input. Click into the intended field before speaking.
Not of its own, but macOS system dictation types into its fields once enabled.
No. That feature is Chrome-only.
Yes, with system dictation or any tool that types into the focused window.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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