Voice to Text for Audacity
Typing interrupts your audio editing flow. Whether you're adding track labels during a podcast edit, writing project notes, marking edit points, or documenting your session for collaborators, switching from listening to typing breaks your concentration. Blurt lets you speak directly into Audacity. Hold a button, say what you want to type, release. Text appears instantly at your cursor. Your ears stay focused on the audio, your hands stay on the transport controls.
The Typing Problem
Track labels require pausing to type
You're editing a two-hour interview. Speaker changes, topic shifts, and key moments all need labels. Each time you stop to type 'Topic: Childhood memories' or 'Edit: Remove cough here,' you lose your place in the audio. By the time you've typed the label, you've forgotten exactly what you were hearing.
Project notes get skipped because typing is tedious
You know you should document your effects chain, the EQ settings, the noise reduction parameters. But after an hour of careful editing, the last thing you want is another hour of typing. So the notes stay blank, and next week you're reverse-engineering your own work trying to remember what you did.
Podcast show notes take forever to compile
The episode is edited, but now comes the dreaded show notes. Timestamps, topic summaries, guest bios, links mentioned. You know exactly what to write because you just edited it, but typing it all out doubles your post-production time. Some episodes ship without proper notes because the typing burden is too high.
Editing markers slow down your review sessions
You're doing a quality check pass, marking spots that need attention. 'Fix plosive at 14:23.' 'Room tone needed here.' 'Guest talked over host.' Each marker note requires switching from listening mode to typing mode. A 30-minute review becomes an hour because documentation takes longer than identification.
Collaboration notes never get written
You're handing the project to a colleague to finish. They need context: why you made certain cuts, which takes are preferred, what the client specifically requested. But explaining all that in text means a 20-minute typing session. So you send the file with a vague 'mostly done, check the end' message.
How It Works
Blurt works anywhere you can type in Audacity. Track labels, project notes, marker descriptions, metadata fields, and export settings. If there's a cursor, Blurt works.
Click into any text field
Label track, project info, marker note, metadata editor. Anywhere you'd normally type in Audacity.
Hold your hotkey and speak
Press your chosen shortcut and say what you want to type. Blurt handles punctuation automatically.
Release and continue editing
Text appears instantly. No delay, no extra steps. Your hands never left the mouse or keyboard shortcuts.
Real Scenarios
Track labels during interview editing
You're cutting a 90-minute interview into a 30-minute episode. Key moments need markers. Press Cmd+B to add a label, hold your hotkey, say 'Great quote about early career struggles, consider for intro.' The label is created in seconds. Back to editing. No typing, no lost focus, no forgotten context.
Podcast show notes as you edit
Instead of writing show notes after the edit, capture them during. Each time you hit an interesting segment, open your notes document, hold your hotkey, speak: 'Timestamp 12:34. Guest discusses the three principles of effective communication.' By the time the edit is done, the show notes are already written.
Effects documentation for complex projects
Your sound design session involves 15 tracks, each with custom EQ, compression, and effects. Click into project notes, hold and speak: 'Vocal track uses high-pass at 80 hertz, light compression 3 to 1 ratio, de-esser on S sounds.' Next track. Your settings are documented before you forget why you made them.
Quality control markers during review
Final listen-through before export. You catch a mouth click at 8:45. Add a label, hold your hotkey: 'Mouth click needs removal, use spectral repair.' At 12:30, a word is unclear. 'Re-record this line or use take 2 from backup.' Every issue documented without breaking your listening concentration.
Client feedback notes in real time
The client is on a call giving feedback as you play the audio. 'Can you make the intro shorter?' Label at that point, speak: 'Client wants intro trimmed, currently 45 seconds, target 30 seconds.' 'I don't like the music there.' Label: 'Client requests different music bed for this section.' Notes captured at the speed of conversation.
Audiobook chapter markers
You're editing an audiobook and need chapter markers with proper titles. Each chapter break gets a label. Hold and speak: 'Chapter 7 colon The Journey Begins.' Next break. 'Chapter 8 colon Unexpected Allies.' The chapter list builds itself as you edit through the manuscript.
Collaboration handoff documentation
Your editing session is done, but a colleague will handle mixing. Open project notes, hold your hotkey: 'Edited for content, no EQ or compression applied. Tracks 1 through 3 are host, tracks 4 through 6 are guest. Room tone on track 7. Client prefers a warmer sound, reference episode 42.' Context that actually helps the next person.
Why audio professionals choose Blurt over built-in dictation for Audacity work
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single customizable hotkey | Double-tap Fn or click microphone |
| Response time | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay, sometimes fails silently |
| Audio terminology | Handles 'EQ', 'dB', 'compressor', 'plosive' correctly | Struggles with audio engineering terms |
| Workflow integration | Works without disrupting Audacity focus | System UI appears, breaks concentration |
| Reliability | Consistent transcription quality | Inconsistent, requires retries |
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