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Voice typing in Sprout Social

Sprout combines publishing, listening and inbox, and all three generate writing. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Sprout Social exactly where your cursor was.

From the people who build Typally. If Sprout Social's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.
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In short

  • Sprout Social's own dictation: AI assistance features by plan.
  • What Typally does instead: types into the focused window, so it works in Sprout Social and everywhere else you write.
  • Best used for: post copy

Does Sprout Social have built-in dictation?

AI assistance features by plan. No dictation.

Why dictate in Sprout Social at all?

A social team using Sprout is publishing, replying and reporting. The reporting commentary — explaining what the numbers mean to someone who will not read a dashboard — is the part that always slips.

In practice people use it for: Post copy, inbox replies, report commentary, and internal notes on a campaign's performance.

How to dictate in Sprout Social

You do not configure anything in Sprout Social. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:

1

Get Typally running

Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.

2

In Sprout Social, click the field before you speak

The cursor position is the whole instruction — Sprout Social routes the keystrokes from there.

3

Talk while holding the key

The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.

4

Read it before you move on

The unified inbox spans networks with different length limits. Check before sending a long dictated reply.

What Typally adds in Sprout Social

Typally types into Sprout's composers and report fields alike, so the interpretation that makes a report useful gets written rather than promised. Because it works at the keyboard level, the same key covers the follow-up email summarising it.

What this looks like in practice

A social lead adds three spoken sentences of interpretation to the monthly report. The marketing director stops asking for a call to explain it, which saves an hour every month.

One habit that makes it work better

Dictate the report commentary. A dashboard with no interpretation gets forwarded and ignored; three sentences of explanation is what makes it useful to a manager.

What to watch out for in Sprout Social

The unified inbox spans networks with different length limits. Check before sending a long dictated reply.

Frequently asked questions

Does Sprout Social have dictation?

No. Composing is typed throughout.

What is worth dictating here?

Report commentary especially — the interpretation nobody has time to write.

Can I dictate into the smart inbox?

Yes, reply fields are ordinary inputs.

Try it in Sprout Social

Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.

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