Dictate in any app · CRM
Zoho CRM is chosen by cost-conscious teams where the salesperson does their own admin. Typally puts your words into Zoho CRM the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Zoho CRM has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.Zia, Zoho's assistant, offers AI features that vary by plan. There is no dictation of your own speech into note fields.
Small sales teams adopt Zoho to avoid enterprise pricing, which means no sales ops person and no one to enforce data hygiene. Notes get written on Friday from memory or not at all.
In practice people use it for: Call notes, deal context, next-step summaries, email templates, and the handover note when accounts change hands.
Setup happens once, outside Zoho CRM, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Text goes wherever Zoho CRM has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Some Zoho fields are single-line and truncate silently. Use the notes section for anything longer than a sentence.
Typally types into Zoho's note fields in the browser with no integration to buy or configure, which matters on a suite chosen for its price. Its cleanup pass removes filler, so what lands is a readable note rather than a transcript your manager has to decode.
A three-person sales team starts speaking notes straight after each call. Within a month the pipeline review stops being 'what happened with this one?' and starts being an actual decision meeting.
Dictate the note in the two minutes after the call. A note written from memory three days later is a different and much less useful record.
Some Zoho fields are single-line and truncate silently. Use the notes section for anything longer than a sentence.
Zia provides AI assistance depending on plan, but not transcription of your speech into notes.
Yes — the whole suite is browser-based, so a system-level tool types into all of it.
Call notes above everything. They are the data the entire system depends on and the data least often entered.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
Also dictate in: Salesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive · see all apps