Voice to Text for Arm Injury
An arm injury affects your whole typing chain. Whether it's a break, strain, surgery recovery, or any condition limiting your arm mobility, positioning your hands at a keyboard becomes difficult or impossible. Blurt removes that barrier completely. Hold a button, speak naturally, release. Your words appear wherever your cursor is — emails, Slack, documents, anywhere. Type from any comfortable position using just your voice. Keep working and communicating while your arm heals.
The Typing Problem
You can't position your arm for the keyboard
Typing requires both arms positioned at the keyboard. With a sling, cast, or limited mobility, getting your arm into typing position is painful or impossible. Even if one hand works fine, the whole typing setup falls apart when you can't properly position yourself at the desk.
Work doesn't pause for recovery
Your arm needs rest. Your doctor said six weeks. But your inbox is filling up, deadlines are approaching, and clients are waiting. You're caught between what your body needs and what work demands. The stress of falling behind isn't helping your recovery either.
One-arm typing is exhausting and slow
Maybe you can type with one hand, but reaching across the keyboard takes forever. You're contorting to hit keys, making constant typos, and every message takes five times longer. It's technically possible but practically unsustainable. The fatigue compounds throughout the day.
Built-in dictation doesn't feel reliable
You tried your Mac's dictation feature. It works sometimes. Other times it stops listening, mishears words, or requires you to say 'period' and 'comma' out loud. You spend as much time correcting errors as you saved not typing. It's not a solution you can depend on.
The recovery timeline is uncertain
Breaks, strains, and surgeries heal on their own schedule. It might be weeks. It might be months. You need a typing solution that works for as long as recovery takes, not a workaround that barely gets you through today.
How It Works
Blurt is straightforward. No complex setup. No learning curve. Just voice to text that works from any position.
Hold your hotkey
Press any key combination you choose. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening. Your injured arm stays in whatever position is comfortable.
Speak naturally
Say what you want to type. Talk at your normal pace from any position — reclining, arm elevated, whatever works. Blurt handles punctuation automatically.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor instantly. No clicking, no copying, no extra steps. Your message is ready to send.
Real Scenarios
Emails from the couch with your arm elevated
Your arm is propped on pillows following doctor's orders. The laptop is beside you but reaching the keyboard properly is out of the question. Hold your hotkey with your good hand, say 'Thanks for checking in. The project is on track and I've reviewed the latest designs. Let me know if you need anything else before Thursday.' Release. Email sent without moving your arm from its elevated position.
Slack responses between recovery exercises
You're doing physical therapy exercises throughout the day. Between sets, your team pings you on Slack. Hold the button and say 'Just finished reviewing the pull request. Looks good to merge. Nice work on the edge case handling.' Reply sent in seconds. Back to your exercises with no strain on your healing arm.
Writing reports with a broken arm
A broken arm means weeks without proper keyboard use. But quarterly reports don't write themselves. With Blurt, you dictate paragraphs naturally from your desk or couch. The report gets done. Your arm stays in its cast, undisturbed. Work moves forward on schedule.
Code documentation while recovering from surgery
Post-surgery recovery means limited arm use. But your code still needs documentation. Position your cursor above the function, hold your hotkey, say 'This function validates the session token and returns the user object if valid. Returns null for expired or malformed tokens.' Documentation written without aggravating your surgical site.
Client communication during a strain
A strained bicep makes keyboard positioning painful. But clients expect responsiveness. Hold the button: 'Thank you for the proposal. I've reviewed the terms and everything looks aligned with our discussion. I'll have the signed agreement back to you by end of week.' Professional communication maintained. Arm resting comfortably.
Meeting notes without reaching for the keyboard
You're on a video call with your arm in a sling. Notes need capturing. After each topic, hold your hotkey and speak your observations. All the key points recorded. Your arm stays supported exactly where it needs to be throughout the meeting.
Updating tickets and status from any position
Your arm injury means you can't sit at your desk normally. But Jira tickets need updates. Recline with your laptop nearby, hold the hotkey: 'Completed initial implementation. Blocked on API access from the vendor. Added follow-up task for credential request.' Status tracked without forcing your arm into an uncomfortable position.
Your Mac has built-in dictation. Here's why Blurt works better when arm positioning is limited.
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, reachable from any position | Double-tap Fn key or click icon |
| Reliability | Consistent transcription every time | Often stops listening or fails silently |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay common |
| Long form | Handles paragraphs without dropping words | Struggles with extended dictation |
| Punctuation | Automatic and accurate | Requires voice commands like 'period' and 'comma' |
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