03 Dictation
Talk in any app. Clean text types itself.
Hold Ctrl + Win in any app — email, Slack, a doc, your IDE — talk like a person, and let go. The ums disappear, punctuation lands, and clean text types itself at your cursor under a second after you release.
Included with Base and Pro
How it works
Put your cursor anywhere
Any text field in any app on Windows or Mac: Outlook, Gmail in a browser, Slack, Word, Notion, VS Code.
Hold Ctrl + Win (⌃ ⌥ on a Mac) and talk
Your words are transcribed while you speak, so there's nothing to wait for at the end.
Let go
Fillers and false starts are removed, punctuation is fixed, “new paragraph” is honored — and the text appears at your cursor.
What makes it different
One chord to remember
Hold it, talk, let go. That's the whole manual — no mode switching, no dictation window to manage.
Edits like a careful typist
It drops “um,” “like” and restarted sentences, and writes the sentence you meant rather than a raw transcript.
Under a second to text
Because transcription happens while you talk, polished text lands at your cursor less than a second after you release.
Works where you type
System-wide, not a browser extension or a single app: it types wherever your cursor is, from email to your IDE.
Private by design
Dictation audio is never stored. It counts toward your plan's monthly listening hours — 10 on Base, 100 on Pro.
Weighing alternatives? Promptly vs Wispr Flow
Questions
How is this different from Windows voice typing?
Promptly's dictation cleans up what you say before typing it: fillers and false starts go, punctuation is fixed and spoken commands like “new paragraph” are honored, so you get finished text rather than a transcript.
Does it work in my code editor?
Yes — it types at the cursor in any app, your IDE included.
Which plans include dictation?
Base and Pro. Dictation time counts toward the plan's monthly listening hours.
Also in Promptly
Try it on your next call.
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