Dictate in any app · Finance
Sage runs finance departments where audit trails are made of written explanations. Typally types what you say straight into Sage — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Sage lets you type.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Sage has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None for narrative entry. Fields are typed.
Finance teams are audited, and audit means explaining decisions made months earlier. The explanation lives in a narrative field somebody rushed at month end, or it does not live anywhere.
In practice people use it for: Journal narratives, accrual explanations, month-end notes, and the commentary attached to a variance.
Setup happens once, outside Sage, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
Text goes wherever Sage has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Sage's narrative fields have strict character limits in places, and long dictated text can be cut without warning.
Typally types into journal narratives and month-end notes, so the reasoning behind an entry — the thing an auditor always asks about — gets recorded when you make it. Watch Sage's character limits: long dictated text can be truncated without warning in some narrative fields.
A financial controller starts speaking a two-sentence rationale onto every non-routine journal. At the year-end audit the sample testing goes through without the usual week of archaeology, because each entry explains itself.
Dictate the reasoning behind a journal, not just its description. The question at audit is always why, and why is the part that never gets typed.
Sage's narrative fields have strict character limits in places, and long dictated text can be cut without warning.
No. All narrative fields are typed.
Enough for someone who was not there to understand why the entry exists. That is longer than most people type.
Yes — browser-based products accept text from a system-level tool.
Start on the free plan (100 minutes a month, no card). Pro lifts the cap and adds meeting notes for $7.99/month.
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