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Dictation in monday.com

Voice dictation in monday.com for item updates, task descriptions, and comments

monday.com has an AI that writes and summarizes for you, but no built-in way to dictate your own words into a field on desktop. SnailText speaks them into any monday.com field and cleans the text up locally.

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AI dictation in monday.com, on your device

SnailText is AI dictation: a speech model turns your voice into text, then a second model cleans it up, dropping filler, fixing punctuation, and matching the style your work needs. Both models run on your own machine, so nothing you say in monday.com is uploaded for transcription. Press the hotkey, speak, and the finished text lands at your cursor.

Does monday.com have built-in dictation?

monday.com has a substantial AI layer (Sidekick, an AI assistant, and vibe) that writes updates, summarizes threads, and drafts emails, but none of that is dictation of your own words. There is no built-in way to speak into a task update, comment, or doc in the desktop web app. Its voice features are AI commands to the assistant and speech to describe an app for the AI to build, not field dictation. To dictate your own text into monday.com you need a system-wide tool. SnailText injects text at the OS level, so it works in every monday.com field on Mac and Windows.

Speech to text in monday.com: how it works

SnailText does not plug into monday.com directly. It runs system-wide: a global hotkey (Option+Space (Mac) / Ctrl+Space (Windows), customizable) starts recording, the local speech-to-text engine (Whisper or Parakeet) transcribes what you said, and the text is pasted at your cursor through the system clipboard, the same way it lands when you type. That means it works in every monday.com field, plus every other app on your Mac or Windows machine, with no extension or integration to set up.

That matters in monday.com specifically: keeping boards current is a lot of manual typing across updates, descriptions, and long-text fields, which is slow but fast to speak. Speech to text removes that bottleneck without changing how you work in monday.com.

Voice to text in monday.com: what to dictate

Voice typing in monday.com is not limited to one box. Press the hotkey anywhere a cursor blinks and your speech becomes text, so the things you would normally type out by hand become things you just say.

  • · Item updates: the main discussion thread on a task
  • · Task and item descriptions with context and acceptance criteria
  • · Comments and replies on updates
  • · monday Docs content and long-text column notes

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Where typing slows you down in monday.com

  • · Keeping boards current is a lot of manual typing across updates, descriptions, and long-text fields, which is slow but fast to speak.
  • · monday's AI writes and summarizes for you, but there is no way to dictate your own exact words into a field on desktop.
  • · Project updates and status notes are recurring, reflective paragraphs you retype constantly.

Example dictations for monday.com

Item update

"Streaming work is in review, the analytics events are done, and the only open item before launch is the copy pass on the empty states. Targeting end of week if review comes back clean."

Task description

"The export button does nothing on Safari but works on Chrome. Expected: clicking export downloads the CSV on every supported browser. Add a note to check the download attribute handling."

Comment

"Agreed this is worth doing. Let us scope it to the web app first and handle the mobile case in a follow-up item so we do not block the release."

monday.com voice dictation FAQ

Does monday.com have built-in dictation?
Not for dictating your own words into a field on desktop. monday.com has an AI layer that writes and summarizes for you, and voice features that command the assistant or describe an app to build, but none of that types your speech into a task update, comment, or doc. SnailText adds that by inserting text at the OS level into every monday.com field on Mac and Windows.
Can I dictate monday.com updates and comments?
Yes, anywhere you can type in monday.com. Click into an item update, a task description, a comment, or a monday Doc, press the hotkey, speak, and the cleaned-up text lands at your cursor. The Development profile keeps code and product names cased correctly.
Can I use voice typing in monday.com?
Yes. SnailText adds voice typing to monday.com on Mac and Windows. Press the hotkey (Option+Space (Mac) / Ctrl+Space (Windows), customizable), speak, and the text lands at your cursor in any monday.com field, the same way it works for voice to text in every other app on your machine.
Does the dictation work offline?
Yes. SnailText runs the speech model on your device, so dictation works with no internet connection after the model is downloaded. The optional AI cleanup model runs locally too.
Is my voice uploaded anywhere?
No. Audio is processed in RAM on your machine and discarded the moment the text is ready. Nothing is sent to a server for transcription.
How much does SnailText cost?
The free tier gives you unlimited local speech-to-text with no account. Pro adds larger models and the on-device AI cleanup, $7.49/mo or $89/yr for up to 3 devices.

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