Voice to Text for Google Slides
Building presentations means endless typing. Slide titles, bullet points, speaker notes, image captions. Every slide requires you to stop thinking about your message and start thinking about your keyboard. Blurt lets you speak directly into Google Slides. Hold a button, say what you want on the slide, release. Text appears instantly at your cursor. Your ideas flow onto slides at the speed of speech, not the speed of typing.
The Typing Problem
Speaker notes take longer than the slides themselves
You've finished your slide deck visually. Now comes the dreaded part: speaker notes. Every slide needs talking points, transitions, reminders. What should take 20 minutes stretches into an hour of typing. Your fingers ache, your thoughts wander, and the notes end up sparse because typing fatigue won. You know exactly what to say when presenting, but writing it all down feels like punishment.
Bullet points become a typing marathon
You need to add five key points to a slide. You know all five instantly. But typing them out, one by one, with proper punctuation and capitalization, takes longer than the meeting where you'll present them. By the third bullet, you're abbreviating. By the fifth, you're cutting corners. The slide ends up weaker because your typing couldn't keep up with your thinking.
Collaborative editing grinds to a halt
Your team is working on a presentation together in real time. Someone suggests changing the headline. Someone else wants to revise the bullet points. You're the one with edit access, but you can only type so fast. The creative momentum dies while everyone waits for your fingers to catch up. Ideas get forgotten before you can capture them.
Slide titles lose their punch during typing
You've got the perfect headline in your head. It's punchy, memorable, compelling. But by the time you type it out, you've second-guessed every word. The delay between thinking and typing gives your inner critic time to water everything down. What should have been 'Transform Your Marketing in 30 Days' becomes 'Marketing Improvement Tips.'
Presentation prep steals your entire afternoon
A 20-slide presentation for tomorrow's meeting. Each slide needs a title, 3-5 bullet points, and speaker notes. That's over 100 separate text entries. Even at a minute each, you're looking at nearly two hours of pure typing. The visual design takes 30 minutes. The content typing takes four times longer. Your afternoon disappears into the keyboard.
How It Works
Blurt works anywhere you can type in Google Slides. Slide titles, bullet points, speaker notes, text boxes, table cells, image captions. If there's a cursor, Blurt works.
Click into any text field
Title placeholder, content area, speaker notes panel, text box. Anywhere you'd normally type in Google Slides.
Hold your hotkey and speak
Press your chosen shortcut and say what you want on the slide. Blurt handles punctuation automatically.
Release and continue building
Text appears instantly. Move to the next slide or add more content. Your hands stay on presentation building.
Real Scenarios
Speaker notes at conversation speed
You're adding notes to your investor pitch deck. Click into the speaker notes panel, hold your hotkey, and speak: 'Open with the market size stat. Pause for effect. Then transition to our unique positioning. Mention the competitor comparison on the next slide. If they ask about revenue projections, reference slide 14.' Detailed notes captured in seconds, not minutes.
Bullet points as fast as you can think them
Your quarterly review slide needs the key achievements. Hold your hotkey and speak: 'Increased customer retention by 34%. Launched three new product features. Expanded into two new markets. Reduced support ticket volume by 50%. Hired 12 new team members.' Five bullet points, five seconds. Move to the next slide.
Slide titles that keep their punch
You need a compelling headline for your opening slide. The idea hits you. Hold your hotkey immediately and say: 'The Future of Work is Already Here.' Captured before your inner critic could water it down. The title you actually wanted, not the safe version you would have typed.
Real-time collaborative editing
Your team is refining a presentation together. Someone says 'Change the third bullet to focus on ROI.' You click, hold your hotkey, speak: 'Delivering 340% ROI within the first year of implementation.' Done before they finish their thought. The creative session stays dynamic, ideas don't get lost waiting for typing.
Presentation prep in half the time
Tomorrow's all-hands meeting needs a 15-slide update. Instead of an afternoon of typing, you speak your way through each slide. Titles, bullets, notes. What used to take three hours now takes 45 minutes. You actually have time to rehearse instead of rushing to finish the content.
Training presentations with detailed notes
You're building onboarding materials that other trainers will use. Each slide needs comprehensive speaker notes so anyone can deliver it. Hold your hotkey and dictate: 'Walk through each step slowly. Ask if there are questions before moving on. The common mistake here is skipping the verification step. Demonstrate the shortcut keys if the audience seems technical.' Complete training documentation, spoken naturally.
Client presentation customization
You need to customize a template deck for a specific client. Their name, their metrics, their industry terminology. Click into each placeholder, speak the customized content: 'Specifically for Acme Corporation's manufacturing operations.' 'Based on your current throughput of 50,000 units per month.' Personalization that would have taken an hour, done in ten minutes.
Why Google Slides users choose Blurt over built-in dictation for presentation work
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single customizable hotkey | Double-tap Fn or click microphone |
| Response time | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay, sometimes fails silently |
| Business vocabulary | Handles 'ROI', 'KPIs', 'Q4', 'YoY' correctly | Struggles with business acronyms and metrics |
| Workflow integration | Works without disrupting Slides focus | System UI appears, breaks concentration |
| Reliability | Consistent transcription quality | Inconsistent, requires retries |
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