Dictate in any app · Email
Thunderbird has no dictation, and its users tend to prefer tools that do not depend on a vendor. Typally puts your words into Thunderbird the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Thunderbird already does without talking you out of using it.Nothing built in. Add-ons exist with the usual caveat that they come and go between major versions.
Thunderbird is chosen deliberately by people running their own mail, often several accounts at once. Volume is the issue, and the app offers nothing to reduce it.
In practice people use it for: Replies across multiple accounts, mailing list posts, long personal correspondence, and support email for a small business.
Nothing changes inside Thunderbird itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
One install, one sign-in. Nothing else to configure.
Click first. Typally types into Thunderbird wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Thunderbird's compose window has its own shortcut set, and Enter behaviour differs between plain text and HTML composition modes.
Typally types into Thunderbird's compose window regardless of which identity you have selected, with no add-on to install and nothing that breaks at the next major version. That suits a client chosen by people running several accounts themselves, where the whole problem is reply volume.
Someone running a small business from a self-hosted mailbox works through thirty-one messages on a Sunday evening. Spoken replies turn a three-hour job into just over an hour, and the answers are longer than the terse ones fatigue would have produced.
Dictate into the message body after selecting the sending account. Getting the from-address right first avoids rewriting a long reply in the correct identity.
Thunderbird's compose window has its own shortcut set, and Enter behaviour differs between plain text and HTML composition modes.
No. Some add-ons offer it; a system-level tool needs no add-on at all.
Yes — it types into the compose window regardless of which identity is selected.
Yes, and plain text avoids the formatting surprises that catch people out in HTML mode.
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