Voice to Text for Coda
Coda combines the flexibility of docs with the power of databases. But writing detailed table descriptions, fleshing out page sections, and maintaining team wikis takes forever when you're typing. Blurt lets you hold a button, speak your thoughts, and release. Your text appears instantly in any Coda doc, table field, or wiki page. No copying, no pasting, no workflow interruption. Just talk and build.
The Typing Problem
Table descriptions stay empty because typing is slow
Your Coda tables track projects, clients, inventory, or team tasks. Each row deserves a detailed description field explaining context, status, and next steps. But clicking into each row and typing thorough descriptions takes five minutes per record. You end up with sparse notes or blank fields. The context lives in your head instead of your database.
Page sections remain half-written outlines
You started a Coda doc to capture a complex process or project plan. The page has beautiful sections with headers. But the content under each header is thin because typing out your full thinking takes too long. Your docs become skeletons that never get fleshed out. New team members open them and leave more confused than before.
Team wikis decay from neglect
Your team wiki in Coda was supposed to be the single source of truth. It started strong but now half the pages are outdated. Updating them means rewriting paragraphs by hand. Nobody volunteers for that work. The wiki becomes a graveyard of stale information that erodes trust.
Doc comments lack the context they need
A teammate shared a Coda doc for review. You spot issues and have feedback. But typing thoughtful comments that explain your reasoning takes longer than the review itself. You abbreviate your thoughts or skip comments entirely. Your feedback becomes less useful because typing is the bottleneck.
Knowledge transfer docs never get written
You're leaving a project or onboarding someone new. Everything in your head about how things work needs to be documented. The explanations would take fifteen minutes to say out loud. But typing them into Coda would take two hours. So the knowledge stays in your head or gets captured incompletely.
How It Works
Blurt works everywhere in Coda: doc pages, table cells, canvas sections, comments, and wiki articles. Anywhere you can type, you can talk.
Click into any Coda text area
Put your cursor in a page section, table cell, comment, or any text block.
Hold your hotkey and talk
Press your chosen key, speak naturally. Blurt adds punctuation automatically.
Release and keep building
Your text appears at the cursor. Move to the next section, next row, next page.
Real Scenarios
Writing detailed table descriptions after a status sync
You just finished a team standup. Each project in your Coda table needs updated notes on blockers, progress, and next steps. Open your Projects table, click into the first row's description field, hold the button, and talk through the update like you're briefing your manager. Thirty seconds per row instead of four minutes of typing. Ten projects updated in under six minutes with complete context.
Fleshing out page sections while ideas are fresh
You created a doc outline with six sections for a new initiative. The structure is clear in your head. Instead of typing each section over an hour, click into the first section, hold the button, and talk through your thinking as if explaining it to a colleague. Each section filled in three minutes instead of ten. The entire doc completed while the ideas are still vivid.
Updating team wiki pages during spare moments
You have ten minutes before your next meeting. Not enough time to rewrite a wiki page by typing. But enough time to hold the button and talk through what's changed since the page was last updated. The deploy process has three new steps. Talk through them like you're training someone. Wiki page refreshed in eight minutes instead of sitting stale for months.
Adding thorough comments during doc reviews
Your team lead shared a proposal doc in Coda. You're reading through and see a flaw in the assumptions. Instead of typing a two-sentence comment that takes ninety seconds, hold the button and explain your concern fully: 'This assumes the API rate limit is 1000 requests per minute but we measured 500 last quarter. The timeline estimate needs to double if that limit holds.' Complete reasoning captured in twenty seconds.
Creating knowledge transfer documentation
You're handing off a project to a teammate. Everything they need to know would take an hour to type. Instead, create a Coda doc with section headers for each topic, click into the first section, and explain how it works like you're sitting next to them. Twenty minutes of talking produces a comprehensive handoff doc that would have taken three hours to type.
Populating lookup tables with rich context
Your Coda doc has a reference table of vendors, tools, or contacts. Each row needs descriptions, notes, and usage guidelines. Typing detailed context for forty rows would take all afternoon. Hold the button on each row and talk through what you know: 'Primary vendor for print materials. Use for orders over 500 units. Contact Mike for rush jobs. Usually delivers in five business days.' Rich lookup table built in under an hour.
Documenting meeting decisions in real time
You're in a team meeting and decisions are being made. Your Coda doc is open for meeting notes. During natural pauses, hold the button and quietly capture the key points: 'Decided to delay launch by two weeks. Engineering needs time for payment integration. Marketing will use the time to finalize assets.' Decisions documented before the meeting ends without disrupting the conversation.
Coda has built-in AI features. Here's how Blurt differs.
| Blurt | Coda AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Input method | Voice: hold button and talk | Keyboard: type prompts |
| Output | Your exact words, properly punctuated | AI-generated content based on prompts |
| Use case | Capturing your thoughts verbatim, faster | Generating or summarizing content |
| Authenticity | 100% your voice and ideas | AI-written, may not match your style |
| Works offline | No, requires internet | No, requires internet |
| Pricing | $10/month or $99/year (separate from Coda) | Included in Coda Team and above |
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