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Windows Terminal hosts PowerShell, WSL and CMD, all of which execute what they receive. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Windows Terminal exactly where your cursor was.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Windows Terminal's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.None. Windows' own Win + H dictation types into it, which is a hazard rather than a feature at a prompt.
Admins and developers on Windows write scripts, change notes and commit messages here, mixed in with commands that run instantly. The prose and the danger occupy the same window.
In practice people use it for: Commit messages in your git editor, here-strings, notes in a terminal editor, and script comments.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Windows Terminal, setup is the same everywhere:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Windows Terminal decides where the text lands, not Typally.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
PowerShell executes on Enter. Win + H will happily dictate into a live prompt, which is exactly the situation to avoid.
Typally types into whichever window has focus, so the discipline is the same as with any terminal: use it in your editor, not at the prompt. Where it earns its place on Windows is everything around the terminal — the change note, the commit message, the ticket explaining what you did.
A Windows admin writes deployment scripts by dictating the comments and logic description into VS Code, then running them from the terminal. Nothing gets executed by accident, and the scripts are documented for once.
Dictate in your editor and paste into the terminal rather than speaking at the prompt. The extra step is what keeps a misheard word from becoming an executed command.
PowerShell executes on Enter. Win + H will happily dictate into a live prompt, which is exactly the situation to avoid.
You can, and it is risky — a return executes. Compose in an editor and paste.
Win + H types into the focused window, terminal included. That is the problem, not the feature.
Anything inside an editor the terminal opened, and script files edited elsewhere.
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