Voice to Text for Jira
Jira is where your team tracks work. But writing detailed ticket descriptions, acceptance criteria, and sprint retrospective notes takes forever. Blurt lets you hold a button, speak your thoughts, and release. Your text appears instantly in any Jira field: ticket descriptions, comments, epic summaries, or sprint goals. No copying, no pasting, no workflow interruption. Just talk and write.
The Typing Problem
Writing ticket descriptions takes longer than the actual fix
You know exactly what needs to be built. The solution is clear in your head. But translating that into a well-written Jira ticket with context, requirements, and edge cases takes twenty minutes of typing. Meanwhile, the actual implementation might only take fifteen. By the time the ticket is written, you have lost the momentum to start working on it.
Acceptance criteria never get the detail they deserve
Good acceptance criteria prevent bugs and rework. You know you should write specific, testable conditions for every ticket. But typing out five to ten detailed criteria per ticket is exhausting. So you write two vague ones and hope the developer figures out the rest. Then QA finds gaps. Then there is back and forth. The shortcuts cost more time than they saved.
Sprint retrospectives become shallow because typing is slow
The sprint ended. You have genuine insights about what went well, what went wrong, and what to change. But during the retro, everyone is typing into Jira or a shared doc. Your detailed thoughts get shortened to three-word bullets because typing full explanations takes too long. The retrospective captures symptoms instead of root causes.
Comment threads lack the context future readers need
You made a decision in a ticket comment. Six months later, someone asks why. The comment just says 'Going with option B.' You remember the thirty-minute conversation that led to that choice, but you did not type the reasoning because it would have taken five minutes. Now you are having the same conversation again because the context was never captured.
Epic summaries stay empty or outdated
Epics need good descriptions explaining the why, the scope, and the success criteria. But writing comprehensive epic summaries feels like writing documentation. It sits on your to-do list while you tackle the urgent tickets. When leadership asks about project scope, you end up explaining verbally because the epic description is a placeholder sentence from three months ago.
How It Works
Blurt works everywhere in Jira: ticket descriptions, comments, acceptance criteria fields, sprint goals, epic summaries, and any text input. Anywhere you can type, you can talk.
Click into any Jira field
Put your cursor in a ticket description, comment box, acceptance criteria, or any text input.
Hold your hotkey and talk
Press your chosen key, speak naturally about the ticket, feature, or feedback. Blurt adds punctuation automatically.
Release and keep working
Your text appears at the cursor. Move to the next field, next ticket, next sprint task.
Real Scenarios
Creating detailed ticket descriptions while the context is fresh
You just finished investigating a bug. The reproduction steps, root cause, and fix are clear in your mind. Open the ticket, hold the button, and talk through everything: what triggers the bug, why it happens, how to fix it, and what to test afterward. Three minutes of talking produces a ticket description that would have taken fifteen minutes to type. The context is captured while it is vivid.
Writing thorough acceptance criteria without the typing friction
You are creating a ticket for a new feature. You know exactly when it should be considered done. Hold the button and talk through each criterion like you are explaining it to the developer: 'The user should see a confirmation modal after clicking submit. The modal should include a summary of their changes. Clicking confirm should save and redirect to the dashboard. Clicking cancel should close the modal and preserve the form state.' Detailed AC in seconds.
Capturing meaningful retrospective insights in real time
The sprint retro is happening. You have a nuanced thought about why the deployment went sideways. Instead of condensing it to three words, hold the button and speak your full observation quietly: 'The deployment failed because we merged the database migration after the API changes were already on staging. We need to add a checklist item for migration order in the deploy process.' Full context captured in one breath.
Adding context-rich comments during ticket discussions
A developer asked a question in a ticket comment. The answer involves history they do not know. Hold the button and explain the full context: 'We tried that approach in Q2 last year. It caused performance issues with large datasets because the query was not indexed. Sarah documented the investigation in the linked ticket. The current approach trades memory for speed which was acceptable given our usage patterns.' Future readers get the full story.
Writing comprehensive epic summaries during planning
You are kicking off a new epic for Q1. The business context, success metrics, and scope boundaries are clear from the planning meeting. Open the epic, hold the button, and narrate everything: the problem being solved, who it affects, what success looks like, what is explicitly out of scope. Ten minutes of talking produces an epic summary that actually helps new team members understand the work.
Updating sprint goals with specific success criteria
Sprint planning just finished. The team agreed on what done looks like for this sprint. Hold the button and capture the goals with their nuances: 'Complete checkout flow integration including error handling. Stretch goal is adding the saved payment method feature if QA bandwidth allows. Blocked on design for the empty state, expected Wednesday.' Sprint goals that actually guide the team.
Quick status updates without breaking your coding flow
You are deep in implementation and realize you should update the ticket status with a progress note. Without switching mental contexts, hold the button and speak: 'Finished the API endpoint. Starting frontend integration now. Found an edge case with expired tokens that needs handling. Will add a subtask for that.' The ticket stays current without derailing your coding session.
macOS has built-in dictation. Here is how Blurt compares for Jira workflows.
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Configurable hotkey, hold to record | Double-tap Fn key, tap to toggle |
| Accuracy for technical terms | High accuracy with technical vocabulary and code terminology | Often misinterprets technical jargon and acronyms |
| Punctuation | Automatic punctuation and capitalization | Manual punctuation commands required |
| Privacy | Audio processed via secure cloud transcription | Audio sent to Apple servers |
| Speed | Optimized for fast, accurate transcription | Can lag on longer dictation sessions |
| Pricing | $10/month or $99/year, first 1,000 words free | Free with macOS |
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