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Voice typing in Supabase

Database schemas outlive their designers, and column names are not documentation. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Supabase exactly where your cursor was.

Written by the team behind Typally. Supabase's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.
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In short

  • Supabase's own dictation: None. SQL editor, table comments and docs are typed.
  • What Typally does instead: behaves like a keyboard, so it reaches parts of Supabase a built-in feature would not.
  • Best used for: table and column comments

Does Supabase have built-in dictation?

None. SQL editor, table comments and docs are typed.

Why dictate in Supabase at all?

Postgres supports comments on tables and columns and almost nobody uses them, because writing one is a chore in the middle of building something. The schema then becomes a puzzle for whoever arrives next.

In practice people use it for: Table and column comments, migration notes, row-level security policy explanations, and project README content.

How to dictate in Supabase

Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Supabase:

1

Download and sign in

Grab the build for your platform and create an account.

2

In Supabase, click the field before you speak

Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Supabase before starting.

3

Press and speak

Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.

4

Read it before you move on

SQL is symbol-dense. Dictate the comment text, then wrap it in the SQL by hand.

What Typally adds in Supabase

Typally types into the SQL editor and dashboard fields, so every row-level security policy can carry a comment explaining what it prevents. Speak the explanation and type the SQL — but the explanation is what stops a future developer disabling the lot to make a feature work.

What this looks like in practice

A developer adds spoken comments to the six row-level security policies on a project. A year later a contractor modifies one safely rather than disabling the lot to make a feature work.

One habit that makes it work better

Dictate a comment on every policy you write. Row-level security is the thing future developers are most afraid to touch, and fear comes from not knowing why a rule exists.

What to watch out for in Supabase

SQL is symbol-dense. Dictate the comment text, then wrap it in the SQL by hand.

Frequently asked questions

Does Supabase have dictation?

No. The SQL editor and dashboard fields are typed.

What should a column comment say?

What the column means in business terms and what values are invalid. The type already tells you the rest.

Can I dictate RLS policies?

Write the explanation by voice and the policy itself by keyboard.

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