Voice to Text for Calendar
Calendar events deserve more than cryptic one-word titles. With Blurt, you speak your event details instead of typing them. Hold a button, say your event title, meeting agenda, location instructions, or notes, release. Text appears in any Calendar field instantly. Perfect for scheduling on the go, adding context to meetings, or capturing detailed instructions for guests. Simple voice-to-text that works wherever you type in Calendar on your Mac.
The Typing Problem
Your event titles are meaningless abbreviations
You create events called 'Mtg' or 'Call' because typing a proper title takes too long. Two weeks later, you're staring at your calendar trying to figure out what 'Sync re: project' meant. Your calendar should help you prepare for upcoming events and remember past ones. Instead, it's a grid of abbreviated nonsense that requires mental archaeology to decode.
Meeting agendas never get written
You could explain your meeting goals in 15 seconds out loud. But clicking into the notes field, typing out discussion points, and formatting them properly takes 5 minutes you don't have. So you skip it. Attendees arrive clueless, meetings start with 10 minutes of context-setting, and everyone wishes someone had just written down what the meeting was about.
Location details stay in your head
The meeting is at a building with multiple entrances, confusing parking, and a security check-in. You know exactly how to get there. But typing out step-by-step directions feels excessive for a calendar event. So you just enter the street address. Guests text you lost and frustrated while you're already waiting in the conference room.
Post-meeting notes disappear into the void
The meeting ended with clear decisions and action items. You'll definitely remember them. Except you never do. A week later you're digging through emails and Slack trying to reconstruct what was agreed. Your calendar event is right there with the perfect timestamp, but it contains no record of what actually happened in the meeting.
Scheduling interrupts whatever you were doing
You're focused on actual work when you remember you need to schedule something for tomorrow. Opening Calendar, creating a new event, typing a title, adding details, setting the time — it's a 2-minute context switch that breaks your concentration. So you tell yourself you'll do it later. Later never comes.
How It Works
Blurt works in any text field in Calendar on your Mac — event titles, notes, location fields, or attendee messages. Just hold, speak, release.
Hold your hotkey
Click into any Calendar field. Press your chosen hotkey to start recording.
Speak your event details
Say your title, agenda, notes, or location naturally. Blurt handles punctuation automatically.
Release and done
Text appears in the field. Save your event. Your detailed calendar entry is complete in seconds.
Real Scenarios
Creating meaningful event titles without slowing down
You need to block time for project work but you're in the middle of something else. Click into the title field, hold your hotkey, and speak: 'Review and finalize Q4 budget proposal with updated headcount projections.' A title that actually tells you what to do, created in 4 seconds without derailing your current task.
Dictating meeting agendas between calls
You have 90 seconds before your next meeting. Tomorrow's planning session needs an agenda. Hold and speak: 'Agenda: Review project timeline, discuss resource allocation for new initiative, align on deliverables for next sprint, assign owners for open action items. Please review the project brief beforehand.' Full context for attendees, created while waiting for the next call to start.
Adding detailed location instructions for visitors
Client meeting at your office. Hold your hotkey and dictate: 'Main entrance is on the east side of the building. Check in at reception for a visitor badge. Take the elevator to the third floor and turn left. Ask for the Sequoia conference room. Street parking available on Main Street, or use the parking garage on Second Avenue with validation at the front desk.' No confused calls during your meeting.
Capturing meeting outcomes immediately
The meeting just wrapped up with important decisions. Edit the event and speak: 'Decisions: Approved revised timeline with March 20 launch date. Marketing owns updated messaging by Friday. Engineering confirmed API changes are on track. Legal reviewing final terms. Next check-in scheduled for Thursday.' Your calendar becomes a searchable decision log.
Adding discussion points to recurring meetings
Your weekly team meeting needs specific topics. Hold and speak: 'Discussion items: Status update on website redesign, review feedback from customer interviews, decide on vendor selection for new tool, team announcements and upcoming PTO.' Everyone arrives knowing what to expect and what to prepare.
Creating personal events with useful context
Doctor appointment next Tuesday. Instead of just 'Doctor', hold and speak: 'Annual physical with Dr. Chen at the downtown medical center. Bring insurance card and list of current medications. Fasting required, no food after midnight the night before. Ask about referral for back pain.' Future you will thank present you.
Scheduling events with preparation instructions
Planning a workshop for your team. Speak the details: 'Quarterly planning workshop. Please bring laptops and have the strategy document open. First half focused on retrospective, second half on planning for next quarter. Lunch will be provided. Reach out if you have dietary restrictions.' Everyone arrives prepared and expectations are clear.
Why voice-to-text beats macOS Dictation for Calendar
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Hold hotkey to record, release to finish | Press twice to start, say command to stop |
| Accuracy | AI-powered transcription with context awareness | Basic system dictation with frequent errors |
| Punctuation | Added automatically, no voice commands needed | Must say 'period' 'comma' 'new line' manually |
| Speed | Near-instant transcription | Processing delays, especially for longer text |
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