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Voice typing in WooCommerce

WooCommerce runs on WordPress, so product descriptions are just posts with a price. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into WooCommerce without you touching the keyboard.

From the people who build Typally. If WooCommerce's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.
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In short

  • WooCommerce's own dictation: None. Product descriptions and fields are typed into the WordPress editor.
  • What Typally does instead: covers WooCommerce and every other program on the machine with one hotkey.
  • Best used for: product long and short descriptions

Does WooCommerce have built-in dictation?

None. Product descriptions and fields are typed into the WordPress editor.

Why dictate in WooCommerce at all?

Store owners running WooCommerce are usually doing everything themselves. Every product needs a short description, a long description and often the shipping copy — multiplied by a catalogue.

In practice people use it for: Product long and short descriptions, category page copy, shipping and returns text, and order notes to customers.

How to dictate in WooCommerce

You do not configure anything in WooCommerce. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:

1

Install Typally

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2

Focus the WooCommerce field you want the words in

The cursor position is the whole instruction — WooCommerce routes the keystrokes from there.

3

Hold the hotkey and talk

Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.

4

Read it before you move on

The block editor creates new blocks on certain characters. Dictate into a single paragraph block and structure afterwards.

What Typally adds in WooCommerce

Typally types into the WordPress block editor that WooCommerce uses, so short descriptions — which do most of the conversion work and get the least attention — can be spoken across a whole catalogue. Dictate into a single paragraph block and add structure afterwards, since the block editor converts stray characters.

What this looks like in practice

A store owner with a hundred and forty products rewrites the short descriptions over three evenings by voice. They stop reading like a spreadsheet column and start sounding like someone describing the thing.

One habit that makes it work better

Dictate the short description as the sentence you would say handing the product to someone. Short descriptions do most of the conversion work and get the least attention.

What to watch out for in WooCommerce

The block editor creates new blocks on certain characters. Dictate into a single paragraph block and structure afterwards.

Frequently asked questions

Does WooCommerce have dictation?

No. It uses the WordPress editor, which has no speech input.

Can I dictate order notes to customers?

Yes — the order note field is an ordinary text box.

What about bulk product editing?

Bulk editors use small inline fields. Dictate longer descriptions in the full product editor instead.

Try it in WooCommerce

The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.

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