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X has no dictation on desktop, and threads are where typing slows people down most. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere X (Twitter) accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
Written by the team behind Typally. X (Twitter)'s own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.Nothing on the web. Mobile relies on the phone keyboard's microphone.
Single posts are short enough that typing is fine. Threads are not — a ten-post thread is an essay, and writing it in a cramped composer is why most people stop at three.
In practice people use it for: Threads, long replies, quote posts with real commentary, and DMs.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside X (Twitter):
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in X (Twitter) before starting.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
The composer counts characters as text arrives, so a long dictated passage can silently exceed the limit and be truncated visually. Draft elsewhere for anything long.
Typally types into the composer and into whatever plain editor you draft in, so a ten-post thread can be spoken as continuous prose and split afterwards. Composing thread breaks while also holding the argument in your head is why most threads stop at post three.
Someone with a good story about a project failure has been meaning to write the thread for a month. Talking it through takes six minutes and produces nine hundred words, which cuts down to an eleven-post thread that evening.
Dictate the entire thread into a plain text editor first, then split it into posts. Composing thread breaks while also thinking about the argument is what makes threads collapse halfway.
The composer counts characters as text arrives, so a long dictated passage can silently exceed the limit and be truncated visually. Draft elsewhere for anything long.
Not on desktop. Mobile uses the phone keyboard's microphone rather than an X feature.
Dictate it as continuous prose somewhere else, edit it, then split it into posts. Composing directly in the box encourages stopping early.
Yes — the message box is an ordinary text input.
There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.
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