Voice to Text for Auditors
You spend more time typing documentation than actually auditing. Workpapers, findings, client request lists, testing procedures - the writing never ends. Blurt lets you speak your observations while reviewing documents, dictate findings while the details are fresh, and document testing procedures without stopping your workflow. Hold a button, say what you see, release. Text appears in Excel, Word, your audit software, anywhere. Your observations get documented in seconds, not minutes.
The Typing Problem
Writing workpapers after reviewing hundreds of transactions
You just tested 60 samples for revenue recognition. Your notes are scattered across sticky notes and Excel comments. Now you need to write formal workpaper documentation explaining your procedures, sample selection rationale, and conclusions. The testing took two hours. The documentation will take another two. By the time you finish writing, you've forgotten the nuances of sample 47.
Documenting findings while details are slipping away
You found a control deficiency during your walkthrough. You know exactly what's wrong - you could explain it verbally in 30 seconds. But by the time you open Word, format the finding template, and start typing, the crisp details have faded. What was that exact dollar amount? Which specific approval was missing? The finding you write is vaguer than what you observed.
Client request lists that grow faster than you can type
Every meeting surfaces new document requests. You're scribbling notes while the controller explains their process, but later you need to translate those notes into a formal PBC list. Each request needs clear descriptions, specific date ranges, and format requirements. Twenty requests become an hour of typing. Meanwhile, the engagement is already behind schedule.
Detailed testing documentation that reviewers actually want
Review notes keep coming back: 'Please expand on your testing procedures.' 'Document the specific attributes tested.' 'Explain your basis for this conclusion.' You know senior management wants thorough documentation, but typing detailed narratives for every test takes longer than the testing itself. Corners get cut. Documentation suffers.
Your hands ache during busy season
Fourteen-hour days. Thousands of keystrokes documenting, emailing, requesting. By week three of busy season, your wrists throb and your fingers are stiff every morning. You're 32 and already worried about carpal tunnel. Ibuprofen becomes a food group. And you have six more weeks of this.
How It Works
Blurt works in every application auditors use - Excel, Word, audit management software, email, TeamMate, Workiva, and browser-based portals. Anywhere you can type.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Speak your observation
Dictate your finding, workpaper narrative, or client request. Blurt handles punctuation automatically.
Release and continue
Text appears at your cursor. No copying, no pasting, no formatting. Back to your audit work.
Real Scenarios
Documenting testing procedures in real-time
You're testing accounts payable disbursements, vouching invoices to approvals and receiving reports. Instead of writing up procedures afterward, you dictate as you go: 'Selected a sample of 25 disbursements over $10,000 from the period January through September. For each selection, agreed invoice amount to approved purchase order and verified three-way match with receiving report.' Testing and documentation happen simultaneously. No reconstruction from memory.
Writing audit findings while standing at a client's desk
The controller just showed you their reconciliation process and there's a gap in the review controls. While it's fresh, you hold the button and speak: 'Observation: Bank reconciliation prepared by staff accountant but no evidence of supervisory review. Reconciling items dated over 90 days with no documented follow-up. Recommend implementing documented management review with sign-off.' Finding captured in 15 seconds, not 15 minutes.
Building client request lists during meetings
You're in the planning meeting and requests are flying. Instead of scrambling to type, you dictate each one: 'General ledger detail for accounts 4000 through 4999 for fiscal year 2025. Need Excel format with posting date, description, and source reference.' By the end of the meeting, your PBC list is already half-written.
Responding to review notes quickly
The manager left fifteen review comments across your workpapers. Each needs a response explaining your work or additional documentation. Hold button: 'Expanded testing to include five additional selections as requested. All additional items tested without exception. See updated schedule at tab 3.2.' Review note cleared in ten seconds.
Drafting management letter comments
You identified three control recommendations during fieldwork. Instead of staring at a blank Word document, talk through each one naturally: 'During our testing of inventory, we noted that cycle counts are performed annually rather than on a rotating basis. We recommend implementing monthly cycle counts for high-value SKUs to improve inventory accuracy and reduce year-end adjustment risk.' Professional prose, spoken naturally.
Email updates to engagement leadership
The partner wants a status update before tomorrow's client meeting. You could type for ten minutes, or speak for two: 'Revenue testing complete with one exception noted regarding cutoff. Completed 40 of 60 planned selections for accounts payable. Expect to wrap fieldwork by Thursday assuming client provides remaining support.' Send, done.
Documenting walkthrough observations
You're walking through the purchase-to-pay process with the AP manager. As she explains each step, you dictate: 'Purchase requisitions initiated by department managers through Oracle. Approvals routed electronically based on dollar thresholds: under $5,000 department manager, over $5,000 requires VP approval.' Your walkthrough memo writes itself.
Why auditors choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or navigate menus |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Audit terminology | Handles GAAP, GAAS, and technical terms | Struggles with accounting vocabulary |
| Numbers and dates | Accurate with dollar amounts and periods | Often mangles financial figures |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy, session after session | Fails silently or requires repeated attempts |
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