Dictate in any app · Publishing
A dictated blog draft takes minutes, and a rough spoken draft beats a blank editor. Typally puts your words into WordPress the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what WordPress already does without talking you out of using it.None. The block editor has no speech input.
The hard part of blogging is not typing speed, it is starting. Talking through a post produces a full messy draft in one sitting, and editing something that exists is far easier than facing an empty page.
In practice people use it for: First drafts, the personal-story section that reads flat when typed, long comment replies, and dictating an outline before writing properly.
Nothing changes inside WordPress itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Click first. Typally types into WordPress wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.
The block editor creates a new block on certain characters and pastes. Dictate into a single paragraph block, then split into headings and lists afterwards.
Typally types into the block editor, so a complete messy draft exists after one sitting instead of a title that has sat there for three weeks. Editing something that exists is a different job from facing a blank editor. Dictate into one paragraph block, then split into headings and lists.
A blogger has had the same draft title sitting in her editor for three weeks. She talks through the whole post in eleven minutes — rambling, repeating, going off on one tangent she keeps. The result is nine hundred messy words, which is a far better starting point than the blank page that had defeated her since April.
Dictate the whole post in one unbroken pass, mistakes included, then edit. The value is having a complete rough draft, not a clean one.
The block editor creates a new block on certain characters and pastes. Dictate into a single paragraph block, then split into headings and lists afterwards.
Yes, with a system-level dictation tool. WordPress itself has no speech input in the block editor.
No. Dictation is for the first draft. Spoken prose repeats itself and wanders — editing is what makes it publishable.
Yes. Both are text fields as far as a system-level tool is concerned.
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