Dictate in any app · Email
Superhuman optimises every keystroke, which makes the composer its remaining bottleneck. Typally types what you say straight into Superhuman — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Superhuman lets you type.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Superhuman has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.AI drafting and reply suggestions, which generate text rather than transcribe yours. There is no dictation.
Superhuman's users pay specifically to move through email faster, and have already removed every other delay with shortcuts. What is left is the part where you have to say something, and that is still typed at typing speed.
In practice people use it for: Replies at volume, the long client email, follow-ups, and anything where an AI-generated draft would sound wrong.
Setup happens once, outside Superhuman, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Text goes wherever Superhuman has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
Superhuman is dense with single-key shortcuts. Make certain the cursor is in the compose body before speaking.
Typally covers the part Superhuman's shortcuts cannot: composing. Once every other delay is removed, what remains is the writing, and that still happens at typing speed. Use the AI draft for scheduling replies and dictation for anything with your judgement or a relationship in it — generated text is fine for the first and wrong for the second.
Someone who has cut their email time in half with shortcuts finds the remaining hour is all composing. Dictating the twelve replies that need real thought takes twenty minutes, and none of them sound like they were generated.
Use the AI draft for routine replies and dictation for anything where your own voice matters. Generated text is fine for scheduling and wrong for apologising.
Superhuman is dense with single-key shortcuts. Make certain the cursor is in the compose body before speaking.
AI drafting writes something for you; dictation captures what you meant. For anything with your judgement or relationship in it, the second is what you want.
Only if the cursor is outside the compose box. Inside it, text is just text.
Yes — a system-level tool types into the focused window.
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