Voice to Text for Dropbox Paper
Dropbox Paper is where teams write together. But drafting long documents, meeting notes, and project briefs by typing slows everyone down. Blurt lets you hold a button, speak your thoughts, and release. Your text appears instantly in any Paper doc, comment, or task list. No copying, no pasting, no context switching. Just talk and write.
The Typing Problem
Project briefs take longer to write than to explain
You need to kick off a new project. The scope, goals, and requirements are clear in your head. You could walk a teammate through the entire brief in ten minutes. But typing it all out with proper structure and detail takes an hour. By the time you finish formatting, you've lost momentum and the project hasn't even started yet.
Meeting notes become a post-meeting chore
Your team uses Dropbox Paper for meeting notes. Someone has to capture decisions, action items, and context while everyone talks. But typing fast enough means missing the nuance. You end up with incomplete notes that require thirty minutes of reconstruction afterward. The meeting was thirty minutes. The documentation takes just as long.
Team wikis stay outdated because typing is tedious
Your team wiki in Dropbox Paper has gaps everywhere. The processes are outdated, the how-to guides are missing steps, and the context for past decisions has vanished. Everyone knows these pages need updating. But sitting down to type out documentation feels like homework. It stays on everyone's to-do list indefinitely.
Collaborative comments take too long to write well
You're reviewing a teammate's doc in Paper. You see issues and have thoughtful feedback. But typing out proper comments with context and suggestions takes forever. You start shortening your feedback or skipping comments entirely. Your reviews become shallow because typing full thoughts feels inefficient.
Brainstorming docs lose ideas to slow typing
You're in a brainstorming session, dumping ideas into a shared Paper doc. Ideas come fast. But typing them out means losing half your thoughts before your fingers catch up. The brainstorm doc ends up with fragments instead of fully formed ideas. The best thinking gets lost in the translation from brain to keyboard.
How It Works
Blurt works everywhere in Dropbox Paper: documents, comments, task lists, tables, and embedded media captions. Anywhere you can type, you can talk.
Click into any Paper doc section
Put your cursor in a document, comment, task list, or any text area.
Hold your hotkey and talk
Press your chosen key, speak naturally. Blurt adds punctuation automatically.
Release and keep collaborating
Your text appears at the cursor. Move to the next section, next comment, next idea.
Real Scenarios
Writing project briefs while the vision is fresh
You just got out of a stakeholder meeting. The project scope is crystal clear. Open a new Paper doc, hold the button, and talk through the project like you're explaining it to the team. Cover the goals, requirements, timeline, and success metrics. Fifteen minutes of talking produces a complete brief that would have taken an hour to type. Your team can start work immediately.
Capturing meeting notes without missing discussions
You're in a weekly sync. Decisions are flying, action items are assigned, and context is shared. Instead of typing frantically, you listen. During pauses, hold the button and quietly dictate: 'Decision: We will ship phase one by February 15. Sarah owns the API changes. Marcus handles frontend.' Real-time notes without leaving the conversation.
Updating team wikis in spare moments
You have ten minutes before your next call. Not enough time to write a proper wiki article by typing. But enough time to talk through the three things every new hire needs to know about your deployment process. Hold the button, explain it like you're onboarding someone, release. A wiki section that would take forty minutes to type is done in eight.
Leaving detailed feedback on shared documents
Your teammate shared a product spec for review. You read through and spot a gap in the rollout plan. Instead of typing a multi-paragraph comment, hold the button: 'The rollout section should address regional compliance. We hit GDPR issues on the last launch. Suggest adding a compliance checklist before each market goes live.' Thorough feedback in twenty seconds.
Brainstorming sessions where ideas flow freely
You're in a virtual brainstorm with your team, using a shared Paper doc. Ideas hit you faster than you can type. With Blurt, you capture each thought fully: 'What if we flipped the onboarding order? Let users see value before we ask for account creation. Reduces friction, increases activation.' Your complete ideas make it into the doc, not just fragments.
Task lists with detailed context
You're breaking down a project into tasks in Paper. Each task needs context so teammates know what to do. Typing descriptions for twenty tasks is tedious. With Blurt, you click each task and dictate: 'Audit existing API endpoints for rate limiting. Check production logs from last month for any 429 errors. Document findings in the performance wiki.' Detailed task lists in minutes.
Document templates that actually get filled out
Your team has Paper templates for retrospectives, product specs, and one-on-ones. The templates have many sections. Most people skip half because typing is slow. With Blurt, you talk through each section naturally. The template gets completed properly because speaking is three times faster than typing.
Dropbox Paper has AI-powered features. Here's how Blurt differs.
| Blurt | Dropbox Paper 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 Dropbox) | Included with Dropbox plans |
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