Voice to Text for Arc Browser
Arc Browser reimagines how you browse the web with Spaces, Boosts, and a radically different interface. But every website still requires typing — forms, notes, search queries, web apps. Blurt brings voice input to Arc. Hold a button, speak naturally, release. Your words appear instantly in any text field, whether you're in a pinned tab, a split view, or the command bar. No browser extension needed. No configuration. Just talk and the text appears wherever your cursor is.
The Typing Problem
Arc's beautiful design still requires ugly typing
You chose Arc for its thoughtful interface and keyboard-first workflows. But every web form, every email compose box, every search field still demands the same tedious typing. Arc streamlined everything except the fundamental friction of text input. You navigate brilliantly with keyboard shortcuts, then hit a text field and slow down to 40 words per minute.
Spaces and split views multiply your typing
Arc encourages you to work across multiple Spaces — work, personal, research, projects. Each Space has its own set of web apps that need text input. Your CRM in one space, email in another, notes in a third. Switching contexts is seamless, but the typing follows you everywhere. More Spaces means more text fields demanding attention.
The command bar is fast but typing queries is slow
Arc's command bar lets you search, switch tabs, and navigate instantly. But the moment you need to type a search query, you're back to keyboard speed. You want to search for something specific, but typing out the full query takes longer than finding the result. The command bar is only as fast as your fingers.
Web notes and annotations need words
You use Arc's notes feature to annotate pages, capture research, and save thoughts while browsing. Each note requires typing your observations. By the third page of research, you have plenty of thoughts but your hands are tired of typing them. Your notes get shorter and less useful because the input friction is exhausting.
Modern web apps demand constant text input
Arc excels at web apps — Notion, Linear, Figma, Gmail, Slack web. These productivity tools live in your pinned tabs and need continuous text input. Task descriptions, comments, messages, document content. You're typing all day across multiple web apps. Arc makes the browser fast but can't make your fingers faster.
How It Works
Blurt works in any text field across any website you visit in Arc Browser. The command bar, pinned tabs, split views, Little Arc windows — anywhere you can type, you can speak.
Click where you want to type
Put your cursor in any text field, input box, or content area in Arc. Works in regular tabs, pinned tabs, split views, and Little Arc windows.
Hold your hotkey and speak
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator appears. Speak naturally — Blurt handles punctuation, capitalization, and formatting automatically.
Release and your text appears
Text is inserted at your cursor position in under 500 milliseconds. Continue typing, submit the form, or move to your next Space. No extra steps.
Real Scenarios
Rapid research note-taking across sources
You're researching a topic with split view showing two sources. As you read, you hold your hotkey and dictate observations: 'This study contradicts the earlier findings about user retention. Note the sample size is three times larger. Key takeaway: engagement drops after day seven, not day three as previously thought.' Each insight captured as you find it, without breaking your reading flow.
Composing emails in your pinned Gmail tab
Gmail lives in your Work Space, always pinned. You have five emails needing responses before lunch. Click reply, hold the button, speak your response naturally. Release, quick review, send. Next email. Voice input turns email from a dreaded task into a five-minute sprint. Your pinned Gmail tab becomes a productivity asset instead of an inbox of guilt.
Searching with full context from the command bar
You press Cmd+T and Arc's command bar opens. Instead of typing a truncated query, you hold your hotkey: 'React useEffect cleanup function memory leak when component unmounts with async state update.' The full query appears. You get the exact Stack Overflow answer on the first result instead of wading through generic tutorials.
Updating tasks across web-based project tools
Your team's Linear board is pinned in your Work Space. Each task needs status updates, comments, and descriptions. Hold the button: 'Completed the API endpoint refactor. Performance improved by 40 percent. Ready for code review. Flagging potential breaking change in the response format that downstream services should check.' Detailed updates that actually help your team, spoken in seconds.
Filling web forms without the friction
The vendor portal needs your company information again — address, tax ID, contact details, service descriptions. With Blurt, each form field becomes a quick dictation. The shipping address you've typed a hundred times becomes a five-second voice entry. Form completion drops from 15 minutes of tedious typing to 4 minutes of easy speaking.
Writing in browser-based docs and notes
Your Notion workspace lives in a pinned tab. Documentation, meeting notes, project specs — all need your written input. Instead of typing paragraphs, hold and speak: 'Meeting summary. Agreed to push the launch date to March fifteenth to complete user testing. Action items: Sarah finalizes designs by Friday, Mark sets up staging environment, I schedule stakeholder demo for next week.' Complete notes captured while the meeting is fresh.
Quick annotations with Arc's Easel and Notes
You're collecting inspiration in Arc's Easel or adding notes to bookmarked pages. Each annotation needs context — why you saved it, what's relevant, how it connects to your project. Hold the button and explain your thinking aloud. Rich annotations that will actually be useful when you return to them, created without the typing tax.
How Blurt Compares
| Blurt | macOS Dictation in Arc | |
|---|---|---|
| Hold-to-talk — natural start and stop | Double-tap Fn key — clunky activation | |
| High — trained on diverse vocabulary including dev jargon | Moderate — struggles with code terms and product names | |
| Under 500ms — text appears almost instantly | 1-3 seconds — noticeable delay breaks flow | |
| Listens until you release — no arbitrary cutoff | Times out during pauses — interrupts natural speech | |
| Yes — any input, textarea, or contenteditable | Inconsistent — some web apps don't support it | |
| Automatic — adds commas, periods, question marks | Manual — must say 'period' or 'comma' |
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