The blank Confluence page is where good thinking goes to stall — you know the doc in your head, but writing it out is the slow part. With Clavio you just say it. Put your cursor in the page body, trigger Clavio, and talk the whole thing through: the overview, the sections, the decisions and the reasons behind them. A formal, composed polish shapes your speech into clean paragraphs and clear headings — the kind of prose the whole team can rely on — while it drops into the page as you go. Nothing publishes itself: Clavio writes the draft and stops, so you read it back, tidy the structure, and hit Publish when it’s ready. The same voice writes the inline comment, the linked Jira ticket, and the Slack heads-up — the whole documentation loop becomes something you say while the thinking is still fresh.
Open the page, trigger Clavio, and talk the whole doc through
Confluence has no name to speak to, so you trigger Clavio with a wake word or a single hotkey — whichever fits your desk. Put your cursor in the page body, say your wake word (or tap the key once), and start talking. There’s no window to open and nothing to hold down while you speak, so a page you’ve been composing in your head lands as real paragraphs at the speed you can narrate it. Long-form is exactly where this pays off: you can lay out an overview, walk through three sections, and close with next steps in one continuous take, without your hands ever leaving the thought.
Formal tone, because the whole team reads the wiki
A Confluence page isn’t a throwaway chat message — it’s the reference a teammate opens six months from now to learn how something works. So keep Clavio on a formal polish for Confluence: it clears the “um,” the “so basically,” and the false starts, and composes your speech into measured, professional prose — full sentences, sensible paragraphs, headings where you spoke them — without inventing claims or flattening what you meant. You still sound like you, just documentation-ready. Add your product names, team terms, and acronyms to Clavio’s dictionary, and they come through spelled right instead of guessed at.
Auto-send stays off — a page is published, not sent
A wiki page is a considered, structured document, not a message you fire and forget — which is exactly why you keep Clavio’s auto-send off here. Clavio drafts the whole page into the body and then waits: you read it back, promote a line to a heading, reorder a section, link the related page, and press Publish only when it reads right. This is where dictating long-form shines — you can talk a full page from title to sign-off in one sitting, then spend your effort on shaping rather than typing. Speaking the draft is hands-free; deciding it’s ready for the space stays a deliberate click, so nothing half-formed goes live for the team.
One voice for the whole documentation loop
The page is one stop on the loop. Draft the doc while the idea is fresh, leave an inline comment when you’re reviewing a colleague’s page, dictate the linked Jira ticket that turns a decision into work — all in the same composed voice, right where you’re working. Then, when someone pings you about it, switch to Slack and answer in a casual tone; speak the release-notes email; talk the meeting summary into your notes. Clavio remembers the tone per app, so one wake word carries you from page to comment to ticket to chat — and because it only answers to your voice, a colleague talking nearby never drops a stray line into your doc. That’s the whole documentation loop, end to end, spoken instead of typed.
Recommended Clavio settings for Confluence
| Setting | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Wake word or hotkey | Confluence has no name to talk to, so trigger with a wake word or a single key — cursor already in the page body, then just speak. |
| Polish level | Formal | Wiki pages are read by the whole team and future-you — formal composes your speech into measured, documentation-ready prose without changing your meaning. |
| Auto-send | Off | A page is reviewed and published, not sent. Clavio drafts the whole page and waits so you shape the structure and press Publish yourself. |
| Personal dictionary | Add product names, team terms, acronyms | Keeps your product names, project codes, and internal acronyms coming through spelled right instead of guessed at. |
| Max dictation length | Set it generous | Talking a whole page through — overview, sections, next steps in one take — runs long, so give yourself room and nothing cuts off mid-thought. |
Draft Confluence pages by voice with Clavio
Clavio is an AI dictation app for Mac. It sits in your menu bar and types finished text wherever your cursor is — a Confluence page body, an inline comment, a linked Jira ticket, plus Slack and email. For Confluence you set a formal polish so pages read clean and composed for your team, and keep auto-send off so Clavio drafts the whole page and waits while you shape the headings and press Publish yourself. A personal dictionary keeps your product names, project codes, and acronyms intact, and an on-device voiceprint means only your voice sets it off. Free to try: 3,000 words a month, no card, macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon. Pro is £12/month for unlimited.
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Common questions
Does Confluence have its own voice input?
Confluence has no built-in voice input, and its AI features summarise and rewrite rather than take dictation. Your Mac has a dictation feature you can switch on, but it drops raw words into the page with no cleanup and no sense of what a wiki doc is. Clavio adds a formal polish so a whole page reads composed and documentation-ready, keeps your product names and acronyms straight, and leaves the structure and the Publish button to you — so the page comes out ready to review, not rewritten later.
Can I draft a whole page fully hands-free?
You can speak the whole thing hands-free — trigger with your wake word or hotkey, then talk the page from overview to next steps with nothing to hold down. Auto-send stays off on purpose, so Clavio drafts the page and waits: you tidy the headings, link the related page, and press Publish yourself. Speaking the draft is hands-free; publishing to the space stays one deliberate click.
Will it keep a formal tone and get our product names right?
Formal polish clears the filler and composes your speech into measured, professional prose without inventing claims or changing your meaning — so the page reads like documentation, not a transcript. To keep names exact, add your product names, project codes, and internal acronyms to Clavio’s dictionary, and they come through spelled right instead of guessed at.
Is dictation any good for long documents?
That’s what dictating into Confluence is best at. Speak the overview, then each section, then the next steps in one continuous take, and a page you’ve been composing in your head lands as structured prose you can shape. Because auto-send stays off, the whole draft waits for you to promote headings, reorder sections, and publish — so a fast talk-through becomes a clean page instead of a wall of text.
Can I use the same voice beyond Confluence?
Yes — that’s the point of a system-wide app. Clavio types into the page, the inline comment, and the linked Jira ticket the same way it types into Slack, email, and your docs, and remembers the tone per app: formal for the wiki, casual for chat. One wake word carries the whole documentation loop.