Dictate in any app · CRM
Salesforce lives or dies on call notes, and call notes are the thing reps refuse to type. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Salesforce accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
From the people who build Typally. If Salesforce's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.None in the standard record UI. Einstein features summarise and generate text rather than transcribe yours.
Every sales manager knows the CRM is only as good as what reps put in it, and every rep knows typing notes after a call is the worst part of the job. So notes get written at the end of the week, from memory, and are worth very little.
In practice people use it for: Call notes, opportunity context, next-step summaries, activity logging, and the handover note when an account changes owner.
You do not configure anything in Salesforce. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
The cursor position is the whole instruction — Salesforce routes the keystrokes from there.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Salesforce fields have length limits and some are single-line. A long dictated note can be truncated silently — use the description or notes field, not a text field.
Typally types into call notes and opportunity fields with no Salesforce integration to install, which usually makes it a shorter conversation with IT than an app would be. Dictating the note in the two minutes after a call produces a fundamentally different artifact from one written on Friday from memory.
A rep finishing a discovery call spends ninety seconds talking the notes into the opportunity — what the customer actually said about budget, who else is involved, what they objected to. The manager reading it on Monday needs no meeting to understand where the deal stands.
Dictate the note in the two minutes after the call, before the next one. A note written from memory on Friday is a different and much worse artifact.
Salesforce fields have length limits and some are single-line. A long dictated note can be truncated silently — use the description or notes field, not a text field.
Not in the standard UI. Einstein generates and summarises; it does not transcribe your speech into a field.
A tool that types keystrokes needs no Salesforce integration or admin approval within the app itself, though your IT policy still applies.
Yes — its fields are ordinary web inputs.
There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.
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