How to dictate in the apps you already use
VoiceSnap Pro is not a window you dictate into and then copy out of. Hold one shortcut and clean, punctuated text appears in whatever field your cursor is already in. These are the guides for the places people ask about most.
Pick your app
Every guide covers what people actually dictate in that app, the exact steps, the app's own dictation feature where it has one, and the mistakes worth avoiding.
Gmail
EmailDictate Gmail replies with one keyboard shortcut. Put the cursor in the compose window, speak, and get punctuated text — no extension, no copy and paste.
Read the guideGoogle Docs
DocumentsGoogle Docs Voice Typing is Chrome-only and stops when the tab loses focus. Here is how it works, and how to dictate into Docs from any browser instead.
Read the guideSlack
Team chatDictate Slack messages, thread replies and DMs with one shortcut. Punctuated text lands in the message box on Mac and Windows, desktop app or browser.
Read the guideNotion
Notes & wikisDictate into any Notion block, database property or comment with one shortcut. Punctuated text lands where the cursor is, in the desktop app or a browser.
Read the guideMicrosoft Word
DocumentsDictate long documents in Word on Mac or Windows with one shortcut. No Microsoft 365 subscription required, and the same key works everywhere outside Word.
Read the guideOutlook
EmailDictate Outlook email on Windows, Mac and the web with one shortcut. Clear a full inbox by voice — subject lines, replies, calendar invites and Teams too.
Read the guideChatGPT
AI assistantsDictate long ChatGPT prompts with one shortcut, in the browser or the desktop app — and use the same shortcut in Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and your editor.
Read the guideCursor
Code editorsDictate AI prompts, code comments, commit messages and docs in Cursor or VS Code — with an honest account of what voice is good for in an editor.
Read the guideThe same three moves in every app
There is nothing to configure per app, because VoiceSnap Pro never integrates with one. It types where the cursor is, which is why the instructions are identical whether the field belongs to a browser, an Electron app or a native one.
Put the cursor where the text should go
A compose window, a message box, a Notion block, a comment balloon, a cell, a search field. Whatever is focused is the target — there is no app picker and no per-app setup.
Hold your shortcut and speak
Full sentences at a normal pace. You do not narrate the punctuation: full stops, commas, question marks and capitals are inferred from how you actually talk.
Release, read, carry on
The text is pasted like any other text, so undo, spell-check, formatting and autosave all behave normally. Nothing is submitted for you — you still press send yourself.
What the text arrives with
Punctuation you never say
Commas, full stops, question marks and capitals come from the way you speak, so you never say “comma” out loud.
Your last dictation, again
Need the same words somewhere else? One shortcut pastes your last dictation again, and a history pop-up finds the ones before it.
Custom vocabulary
Teach it colleagues, clients, product names, repos and acronyms once, and stop correcting the same six words forever.
Saved and searchable
Keep optional text history on the computer where you dictate. Voice notes are saved separately to your account, where you can tag them, file them and set reminders.
The other few hundred places it works
The apps above have guides because they are what people search for. The list of apps VoiceSnap Pro works in has no end, because there is no integration to build — if the app has a text field, it takes dictation.
- Apple Mail
- Thunderbird
- Microsoft Teams
- Discord
- Linear
- Jira
- Asana
- Trello
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Obsidian
- Bear
- Apple Notes
- Evernote
- Todoist
- Things
- Figma comments
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Zendesk
- Intercom
- Airtable
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- Keynote
- PowerPoint
- Confluence
- WordPress
- Substack
- Terminal
- Zed
VoiceSnap Pro has no integration with any of these companies and needs none. It inserts text into the focused field on macOS and Windows.
Questions about dictating in other apps
No. That is the whole design. VoiceSnap Pro inserts text into whichever field currently has focus, so it does not know or care which app owns that field. There is no extension to install per browser and no add-in to install per office suite, and an app that shipped last week works on day one.
The cursor. Wherever the caret is blinking is where the text lands. That is the only rule, and it is why the instructions on every guide here are essentially the same three steps — the difference between apps is which field you should click first.
Yes, and it makes no distinction between them. A Gmail compose window in Safari, Slack's Electron app, Word for Windows and a terminal are all just focused text fields. It also means switching browsers costs you nothing.
Some do — Google Docs has Voice Typing, Word and Outlook have Dictate, ChatGPT has a microphone. Each of those works inside its own product, needs its own setup, and in most cases needs a subscription or a specific browser. The guides above set out the real limitations of each one so you can decide honestly whether you need anything else.
Never. VoiceSnap Pro pastes text and stops. It does not press Enter or click Send, so nothing is sent from that app because you dictated into it.
Yes. Use automatic language detection or choose a language in Settings. Recognition can vary in mixed-language sentences, so review the result before sending. Optional dictation history stays on the computer where you spoke.
Download VoiceSnap Pro for Mac or Windows and sign in with Google or a one-time code sent to your email. Every account starts with a free allowance, with every feature and no card. If you would rather try dictation in your browser first, the free voice typing tool on this site needs nothing installed.
One shortcut, every app on your machine
VoiceSnap Pro is free to start, with no card, and nothing you dictate is used to train AI models. Download it for Mac or Windows and the same shortcut works in every app above.
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