Voice to Text for Claude
Claude excels at understanding nuanced, detailed prompts. But typing out comprehensive context takes forever and disrupts your thinking. Blurt lets you speak your prompts naturally and pastes them directly into Claude. Hold a button, explain your problem in full detail, release. Your complete prompt appears ready to send. $10/month or $99/year with a free tier to try it out.
The Typing Problem
Claude rewards detail but typing detail is exhausting
Claude's strength is understanding complex, nuanced requests. The more context you provide, the better the response. But typing out all that context feels like work. Your thoughts are rich and detailed. Your typed version ends up abbreviated and incomplete. Voice captures everything you're actually thinking.
Describing code problems takes longer to type than to fix
You have a bug, an architecture question, or a refactoring challenge. Explaining what the code does, what you expected, and what's actually happening requires paragraphs of context. Speaking lets you walk through the problem naturally, like explaining to a colleague. Thirty seconds of speech beats five minutes of typing.
Iterating on Claude conversations requires constant typing
Claude conversations build momentum. You refine your request, ask for modifications, explore alternatives. Each iteration means more typing. Voice keeps the conversation flowing at the speed of thought. 'Now try it with async await instead.' 'Can you explain why that approach is better?' Quick follow-ups, no typing fatigue.
Providing context from documents is tedious
You're asking Claude to analyze a document, summarize research, or work with information you're reading. Describing what you're looking at while typing pulls your attention away from the source material. Speaking lets you stay focused on the document while explaining what you need.
Long-form thinking gets truncated when you type
You have a complex scenario with multiple considerations. When you type, you simplify to save time. Important nuances get dropped. Speaking encourages complete thoughts. You include the edge cases, the constraints, the context that makes Claude's response actually useful.
How It Works
Blurt sits in your menu bar and works with Claude in any browser. Hold your hotkey, speak your prompt, release. Done.
Focus on the Claude input
Click into the message box where you'd normally type your prompt in Claude.
Hold your hotkey and speak
Press your chosen key. Speak your complete prompt naturally, including all the context, constraints, and details Claude needs to give you a great response.
Release and send
Your spoken words appear as text in the input field. Review if you want, then hit enter to send.
Real Scenarios
Writing detailed prompts that capture your full intent
Claude responds best when it understands exactly what you need. Instead of typing a simplified version of your request, you speak the full picture. Background context, specific requirements, desired format, edge cases to consider. Everything that makes the difference between a generic response and exactly what you wanted.
Describing complex problems with full context
You have a multi-faceted challenge that needs explanation. 'I'm building a system that handles user uploads, processes them asynchronously, and needs to notify users when complete, but I'm struggling with how to handle failures gracefully when the processing service is temporarily unavailable.' Speaking captures the whole picture naturally.
Explaining code or asking for code reviews
You paste code into Claude and need to explain what you're trying to do. 'This function is supposed to validate user input and sanitize it before storing in the database, but I'm not sure if I'm handling the edge case where the input contains unicode characters that look like ASCII but aren't.' Natural speech captures intent better than typed descriptions.
Iterating rapidly on Claude's responses
Claude gave you a good start but you need refinements. 'Make it more concise.' 'Add error handling for the network timeout case.' 'Can you restructure this to use composition instead of inheritance?' Quick voice commands keep the iteration loop tight and productive.
Providing document context while reading
You're analyzing a PDF, reading documentation, or reviewing a long email thread. You want Claude's help understanding or responding. Speaking lets you stay focused on the content while explaining what you need. Your eyes stay on the document, your voice captures the request.
Brainstorming and exploring ideas
You're thinking out loud with Claude as a thought partner. Ideas flow faster than you can type them. 'What if we approached this from the user's perspective instead? Like, they just want to accomplish X but our current flow makes them do Y and Z first. Is there a way to...' Stream of consciousness becomes usable prompts.
Late-night sessions when typing feels like too much
It's late, you're tired, but you need Claude's help. Typing feels exhausting. Speaking feels effortless. You can lean back, talk through your problem, and get the help you need without the physical effort of typing long prompts.
Different ways to get text into Claude. Here's how Blurt compares.
| Blurt | Manual Typing | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed for detailed prompts | Speak 150+ words per minute | Type 40-60 words per minute |
| Completeness of context | Full thoughts captured naturally | Tends to abbreviate to save time |
| Code explanations | Describe problems conversationally | Struggle to type technical narratives |
| Iteration speed | Quick voice follow-ups | Typing fatigue accumulates |
| Multi-tasking capability | Speak while reading documents | Focus shifts to keyboard |
| Price | $10/month or $99/year | Free (but slower and less detailed) |
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