Dictate in any app · Design
Design files are handed over, and the handover is written in the layer names. Typally types what you say straight into Sketch — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Sketch lets you type.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Sketch's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.None. Text layers and notes are typed.
Sketch files pass between designers and developers, and everything the receiver needs to know that is not visible — which symbol to use, what a variant is for — lives in naming and annotations that take time to write.
In practice people use it for: Annotation text, symbol and component descriptions, handover notes, and design rationale.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Sketch, setup is the same everywhere:
One install, one sign-in. Nothing else to configure.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Sketch decides where the text lands, not Typally.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Sketch's shortcuts are single-key when no text layer is being edited. Make sure you are in a text field.
Typally types into Sketch's text fields and into whatever document holds your handover notes, from the same key. Speaking the reasoning is what makes annotation happen at all, since typing it is what always gets postponed until after handover.
A designer annotates a handover with three spoken lines per screen explaining what varies by state. The build comes back correct on the first pass instead of after two rounds of clarification.
Annotate the decision, not the measurement. Developers can measure; what they cannot infer is why the spacing changes on one breakpoint.
Sketch's shortcuts are single-key when no text layer is being edited. Make sure you are in a text field.
No app-specific feature; macOS system dictation reaches its text fields.
The reasoning. Measurements are visible; intent is not.
Yes, wherever Sketch gives you a text field.
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