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Telegram's voice messages are audio; dictation gives the recipient text they can actually search. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Telegram exactly where your cursor was.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Telegram's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.Voice messages, and speech-to-text for received voice notes on Premium. Neither types your speech into the composer before you send it.
Telegram threads get long and are frequently searched later. Audio is invisible to search, so a voice note is effectively lost the moment it scrolls away.
In practice people use it for: Long replies, coordinating with groups, channel posts, and work conversations that happen on Telegram rather than email.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Telegram, setup is the same everywhere:
Windows or macOS build, signed in once.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Telegram decides where the text lands, not Typally.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
Enter sends by default. Use Shift+Enter for line breaks, and check whether your dictation inserts a return at the end.
Typally types into Telegram Desktop's composer, so anything worth finding again — an address, a decision, a date — becomes searchable text instead of a voice note that vanishes when it scrolls away. Whisper-based transcription also handles the language switching that Telegram threads often involve.
Someone confirming details for a trip dictates the message instead of sending a voice note: flight number, arrival time, the name of the hotel, who is meeting whom. Three weeks later, standing in an airport, they search the chat for the hotel name and find it in two seconds.
Dictate rather than sending a voice note when the message contains anything anyone will look for again — an address, a decision, a date.
Enter sends by default. Use Shift+Enter for line breaks, and check whether your dictation inserts a return at the end.
No. Telegram Premium transcribes received voice messages; it does not type your speech into the composer.
For anything worth finding later, yes — text is searchable in Telegram, audio is not.
Yes. A system-level tool types into whichever window has focus.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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