Voice to Text for Investment Bankers
Your billable hours are too valuable to waste on typing. Blurt lets you speak your pitch book narratives, deal memos, and client emails while keeping your hands free for modeling. Hold a button, say what you need, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — in PowerPoint, Excel comments, Outlook, anywhere. No switching between thinking and typing. No losing your train of thought mid-sentence. Just talk and the words appear.
The Typing Problem
Writing pitch book narratives at 2 AM
The MD wants the deck by 7 AM. You know exactly what the investment thesis should say — you could explain it in 30 seconds — but typing it out coherently while exhausted takes 20 minutes. Your brain is fried from modeling all day. Every paragraph feels like pushing through mud. The words are in your head but your fingers can't keep up.
Drafting deal memos under impossible deadlines
The partner needs the memo before the 9 AM committee meeting. You have three hours to summarize a month of due diligence into a coherent narrative. You know every detail of this deal, but translating that knowledge into polished prose while the clock ticks is excruciating. Each sentence takes twice as long as it should.
Client emails that need to sound perfect
A client just asked a complex question and expects a response within the hour. The answer involves nuance that takes careful wording. You know what to say but drafting and redrafting the email to get the tone right eats up precious time. Meanwhile, three other fires are burning. You need to respond fast without sounding rushed.
Due diligence reports while reviewing hundreds of documents
You're deep in a virtual data room, flagging issues across hundreds of documents. For each finding, you need to write a clear note explaining the risk. Switching between analysis mode and writing mode for every single document kills your momentum. By document fifty, your notes have become cryptic shorthand that won't make sense next week.
Your wrists and back ache from endless typing
Fourteen-hour days, seven days a week during live deals. Your fingers never stop moving — models, decks, emails, memos. The ergonomic keyboard helped a little but you're still typing thousands of words daily. You're not even thirty and already worried about repetitive strain injuries. This pace isn't sustainable.
How It Works
Blurt works in every app investment bankers use — PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Word, Bloomberg Terminal. Anywhere you can put a cursor.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Talk naturally
Say your pitch narrative, email response, or memo section. Blurt handles punctuation.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor. No copying, no pasting, no extra steps.
Real Scenarios
Drafting pitch book narratives while reviewing comps
You're toggling between your comps model and the PowerPoint deck. The 'Investment Highlights' slide needs compelling copy. Instead of context-switching to writing mode, hold your hotkey and speak: 'Target represents a compelling platform acquisition with strong recurring revenue, attractive margin profile, and significant synergy potential with the buyer's existing portfolio.' Narrative drafted in seconds, hands back to the model.
Writing deal memos that capture complex transaction rationale
The investment committee needs to understand why this deal makes sense. Hold the button and explain it like you would to a colleague: 'The proposed acquisition multiple of 8.5x EBITDA represents a 15% discount to precedent transactions, justified by the target's customer concentration risk and required capex investment. Synergies of $50 million are achievable through headcount rationalization and procurement savings.' Three paragraphs spoken in 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes of typing.
Responding to client emails during live deal execution
The CFO just asked about the timeline for the fairness opinion. You need to respond thoughtfully but fast. Hold your hotkey: 'We expect to deliver the draft fairness opinion by end of week, subject to receiving the updated management projections by Wednesday. Happy to schedule a call tomorrow to walk through our preliminary valuation conclusions.' Email drafted, tone professional, back to the model in under 10 seconds.
Documenting due diligence findings in real-time
You're reviewing the target's material contracts and just found a change-of-control provision that could derail the deal. Instead of typing a note that you'll have to decipher later, speak: 'Section 4.2 of the ABC Supply Agreement contains a change-of-control provision requiring consent for any transaction involving greater than 50% ownership change. Consent timeline is 90 days. Flag for deal team review.' Clear, complete documentation without breaking your review flow.
Creating Excel model comments and assumptions
Your LBO model has dozens of assumptions that need documentation before handing off to the associate. Hold button on each cell: 'Revenue growth assumption of 7% based on management guidance, haircut from their 10% projection to reflect historical miss rate.' Assumptions documented in real-time. The next person to open this model will actually understand your logic.
Preparing talking points for management presentations
The MD needs bullet points for tomorrow's management meeting. You know the key messages cold. Hold and speak: 'Key discussion points: current market conditions favor sell-side timing, strategic buyers are actively consolidating in this space, and preliminary indications suggest valuations in the 10 to 12x range.' Talking points drafted while you're still thinking about them.
Updating status memos during live transactions
Weekly status update due to the partner. Hold and speak through the update: 'Phase one buyer outreach complete. Received 12 indications of interest, 8 meeting minimum threshold. Scheduling management presentations for weeks of January 15th and 22nd. Key risk: two strategic buyers requested exclusivity, which we have declined.' Status memo done in 60 seconds instead of 15 minutes of drafting.
Why investment bankers choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or double-tap Fn key |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Financial terminology | Handles EBITDA, LBO, M&A terms accurately | Struggles with financial jargon and acronyms |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy across long sessions | Degrades during extended use, often fails silently |
| Privacy | Audio processed securely, not stored | May send audio to Apple servers |
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