- Knowledge workers who write emails, prompts, posts, notes, or project updates all day.
- AI power users who think better out loud and do not want to clean up every false start.
- Anyone who wants a voice-first workflow for research, navigation, drafting, formatting, and quick translation.
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Cut Typing Time In Half With AI Voice Commands (Typeless Tutorial)
In this guide, you will learn how to use Typeless to research an idea, summarize a source, open a draft, and dictate a clean message without typing every sentence by hand.
Introduction
In this guide, you will learn how to use Typeless to research an idea, summarize a source, open a draft, and dictate a clean message without typing every sentence by hand.
Step-by-step 5 steps
Instructions
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Step 1 of 5 Install Typeless And Set Up The Shortcuts
Go to Typeless (https://www.typeless.com/) and download the desktop app.
Complete the tutorial and set up the two shortcuts you will use most:
- Ask Anything, for research, search, and opening pages.
- Dictation, for writing into the current text field.
typeless keyboard shortcuts Pro tip: Make sure the keyboard shortcuts do not conflict with other apps.
Open Notes or Google Docs and test one sentence:
We need a 30-day report on our social media accounts by the end of the week.If the sentence lands in the right place, your microphone, cursor, and shortcut are working.
Before using Typeless heavily, check the plan fit. As of June 22, 2026, the Typeless pricing page (https://www.typeless.com/pricing) lists:
- Free: 8,000 words per week, standard accuracy, standard high-demand access, and core features like cleanup, Translate, Ask Anything, personalized writing style, app-specific tones, and Whisper mode.
- Pro: $12 per member per month when billed yearly, or $30 monthly, with unlimited words, enhanced accuracy, priority access, team management, prioritized feature requests, and early access.
Check the live pricing page before subscribing, because plan details can change.
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Step 2 of 5 Use Ask Anything To Research An Angle
Use Ask Anything to research the topic you want to write about.
Try:
What are some recent trends in consumer AI use cases that I could use to draft an interesting tweet?If the answer is too broad, tighten the search:
Search Google for the hottest [TOPIC] trends in [MONTH YEAR].Pick one clear angle before you draft.
In our test, the best angle came from an article about how people are actually using AI:
- research
- emotional support
- work help
- personal productivity
- bottom-up habits inside companies
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Step 3 of 5 Summarize Source Material Before You Write
Open a useful article and select the relevant text.
Then ask Typeless:
Summarize this text.To turn the summary into a draft format, use:
Rewrite the selected text as an X thread.You can swap the format:
- Rewrite the selected text as a short email.
- Rewrite the selected text as three bullets for a project update.
- Rewrite the selected text as a prompt I can paste into ChatGPT.
Pro tip: Select the text first so Typeless knows exactly what to summarize.
Keep commands small:
- Summarize the selected text.
- Move the summary where you want to work.
- Rewrite it in the format you need.
- Open the final destination separately.
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Step 4 of 5 Open Your Draft Destination
Use Ask Anything to open the place where the final message should go.
For a social post:
Open x.com and open a new tweet.For email:
Open Gmail and start a new email.For a document:
Open a new Google Doc.You may still need to click once or confirm the right field.
Before dictating, make sure your cursor is in the draft. If your cursor is in the browser address bar, Typeless can put the text there instead.
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Step 5 of 5 Dictate Naturally And Let Typeless Clean It Up
Put your cursor in the draft and talk through the message like you would explain it to a coworker.
For example:
Here are the three most interesting things Harvard Business Review found for 2026. First, AI slop and cognitive decline are becoming a concern as people over-rely on AI. Second, emotional support, therapy, companionship, and relationship advice have become top AI use cases. Third, AI at work is growing from the bottom up, with individuals using tools before companies formally roll them out.Typeless can clean up rough speech and corrections.
Try this:
We need a 90-day report, no actually a 30-day report, on our social media accounts by the end of the week.Typeless should write the final ask as a 30-day report.
You can also speak a list naturally:
There are three teams working on the account: Mike's team, April's team, and Sean's team.Typeless can format that as a list instead of one long sentence.
x draft from dictation Pro tip: If you make a mistake while dictating, correct yourself naturally. Typeless's AI will understand the correction and only write your final idea.
Review the draft before sending or publishing. Check names, numbers, links, and any claims that came from research.
You're done
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Background and context
Who This Is Useful For
What You Will Build
You will build a voice workflow that moves from research to draft:
- Ask Typeless for a useful angle.
- Summarize source material.
- Open the draft destination.
- Dictate naturally.
- Review before sending or publishing.
The example uses an X post, but the same flow works for email, docs, Slack messages, meeting follow-ups, notes, and AI prompts.
What You Need To Get Started
- A Typeless account.
- Typeless installed on your computer.
- Microphone access enabled.
- Accessibility or input permissions enabled if Typeless asks for them.
- A safe draft destination, like Google Docs, Notes, Gmail, or an unpublished X post.
Going Further
Once the core flow works, test the secondary features.
For translation:
Translate this into Italian.
For app navigation:
Open a new Notion page for me.Use this pattern anywhere you write:
Ask, navigate, dictate, format, verify.Good next use cases:
- Turn a rough meeting follow-up into a clean email.
- Dictate a long AI prompt without fixing every false start manually.
- Summarize selected article text before drafting a post.
- Open a work app with Ask Anything, then dictate the update.
- Translate a short message while traveling or working with someone in another language.
Start in draft mode until you trust the shortcuts, cursor placement, and cleanup behavior.