Voice to text for Slack

Click the microphone in Slack's message field and you record an audio clip of up to five minutes, with a transcript you can generate. That's useful, but it's a different thing from a message.

Voice clips win when tone matters more than speed, like a hello across time zones. For updates, answers, and anything someone needs to find again, a typed message is kinder to the person reading it.

Checked on October 16, 2026 against Slack Help Center: Record audio and video clips.

Slack has its own register. Nobody opens with "Dear team", and a full stop after "sounds good" can read colder than you meant. Glaido has three styles. Here's the same sentence in each, so you can pick the one your team writes in.

Most teams land on Casual. Add a short prompt so updates break into lines and nothing gets a greeting it didn't need.

Add Slack under Apps and app.slack.com under Websites, so the rule follows you into the browser. If you also use Microsoft Teams or Discord, add them to the same rule. Your email keeps its own shape, because Gmail runs under Glaido's built-in Email rule.

Type the mention, say the rest

Glaido pastes text, so saying "at Maria" gives you the words, not a mention, and nobody gets notified. Type @, pick the person from Slack's list, then hold the hotkey and talk. Add teammates' names to the Dictionary so they're spelled right when you say them.

Watch the double Enter

With Enter to stop and paste turned on (Settings > Hotkeys > App), the first Enter ends a hands-free dictation and pastes, and the second sends. If you press Enter twice by habit, the message goes out before you read it.

Say the whole thought

Dictation pays off most on the messages you put off typing: the end-of-day update, the explanation of why a deploy broke, the reply to a long thread. Say it the way you'd explain it at someone's desk.