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Retype a recent dictation

Type one of your recent dictations at the cursor again, without saying it a second time.

UPDATED 2026-07-28

Text landing in the wrong window is the most common way a good dictation goes to waste. Retype is the fix: it types one of your recent dictations at the cursor, so you can put the words where they were meant to go without saying them again.

Using it#

  1. Click into the window you want the text in.
  2. Press Retype on the pill.
  3. Pick one of your three most recent dictations from the list.

The text is typed at the cursor, the same way a normal dictation is typed. The list also has an Open history… row, which opens the History window if you want to find something older or copy it instead.

Retype is only available while Blabb is idle. During a dictation all four pill buttons are replaced by a single Stop.

When it earns its keep#

  • The focus was wrong. You pressed the shortcut, spoke, and the words went into the browser behind your email. Click into the right box and retype it.
  • You need the same sentence twice. The same paragraph into a second ticket, a repeated address, a standard line you say often.
  • The app swallowed it. Some apps drop typed input. Retype gives you a second attempt after changing the text entry method for that app.

The list is your recent dictations, so what appears there follows what you keep in history.

Note

Retype types the final text — the cleaned-up version that was entered originally. It does not run cleanup again, so the wording is exactly what you saw the first time.

If retyping also produces nothing#

The problem is where the text is going, not the dictation. The usual causes are a target window running as administrator, which Windows will not let Blabb type into, and a text entry method that particular app does not accept. Both are covered in Nothing gets typed.

See also#