Voice to Text for Miro
Typing kills brainstorming momentum. When you're facilitating a workshop, running a retrospective, or capturing ideas on sticky notes, every second spent typing is a thought that might slip away. Blurt lets you speak directly into Miro. Hold a button, say what you want to type, release. Text appears instantly on your sticky note, shape, or comment. Your hands stay on the mouse positioning elements, your mind stays on the ideas flowing.
The Typing Problem
Sticky notes can't keep up with the speed of ideas
The brainstorm is on fire. Ideas are bouncing around the room. You need to capture each one on a sticky before it evaporates. But typing takes time. By the time you've finished one sticky, three ideas have vanished. The best brainstorms get bottlenecked by keyboard speed.
Workshop facilitation becomes a typing marathon
You're running a design thinking workshop. Participants are contributing ideas, you're synthesizing on the board, and there are annotations to add everywhere. Four hours of typing while trying to stay present and engaged. Your wrists ache by lunch. Your attention is split between capturing and facilitating.
Retrospective notes lose nuance when you rush to type
Someone shares a thoughtful observation about team dynamics. You want to capture it accurately. But typing the full context would take 30 seconds, and the next person is already speaking. So you abbreviate. The nuance is lost. Later, no one remembers what 'comm issues' actually meant.
Annotations during reviews become terse and unhelpful
You're reviewing a journey map with stakeholders. You spot three issues that need explaining. But detailed annotations take time. You type brief notes that don't convey your full thinking. The team ends up scheduling a follow-up meeting to discuss what your annotations actually mean.
Real-time collaboration suffers when you're stuck typing
The board is filling up with contributions from remote team members. You have insights to add. But by the time you finish typing your sticky, the conversation has moved on. Your input arrives late, out of context, less useful. Async typing creates sync problems.
How It Works
Blurt works anywhere you can type in Miro. Sticky notes, shapes, comments, text boxes, frame titles, annotations. If there's a cursor, Blurt works.
Click into any text field
Double-click a sticky note, select a shape, open a comment. Anywhere you'd normally type in Miro.
Hold your hotkey and speak
Press your chosen shortcut and say what you want to type. Blurt handles punctuation automatically.
Release and keep brainstorming
Text appears instantly. No delay, no extra steps. Move to the next sticky and repeat.
Real Scenarios
Rapid sticky note creation during brainstorms
Ideas are flying in the ideation session. You double-click to create a sticky, hold your hotkey, say 'What if we added a progress indicator to reduce user anxiety during the upload?' Release. Sticky done. Next idea. You're capturing thoughts at the speed of conversation, not the speed of typing.
Workshop facilitation without typing fatigue
You're facilitating a three-hour strategy session. Participants share insights, you synthesize on the board. Hold and speak: 'Key theme emerging: customers want transparency over speed.' Next sticky. 'Action item: customer interview round two.' Your hands stay free to organize, group, and connect elements.
Detailed retrospective notes that capture context
A team member explains a complex blocker they encountered. You want the full picture preserved. Hold your hotkey: 'The API documentation was outdated which caused a two-day delay while we reverse-engineered the expected payload format.' Full context captured in seconds, not paraphrased into meaninglessness.
Live annotation during journey map reviews
You're walking stakeholders through a customer journey. At each pain point, you add annotations. Hold and speak: 'High-friction moment. Users report confusion about pricing. Consider adding a pricing calculator at this step.' Detailed feedback appears instantly without breaking your presentation flow.
Real-time idea capture in remote meetings
Your distributed team is brainstorming on a shared Miro board. Someone suggests an interesting angle. You immediately create a sticky, hold your hotkey, speak: 'Interesting: what if we inverted the user flow and started with the result instead of the process?' Your contribution lands while it's still relevant.
Affinity mapping with voice-powered labels
You've collected 50 stickies and now need to group them. As you drag stickies into clusters, you add group labels. Hold and speak: 'Technical infrastructure concerns.' Next group. 'User onboarding friction.' Labeling happens as fast as the patterns emerge in your mind.
Meeting notes that actually get created
You're in a planning session and need to capture action items and decisions as they happen. Instead of falling behind or giving up entirely, you create stickies on the fly. Hold and speak: 'Decision: we're going with the hybrid approach. Owner: Sarah. Due: Friday.' Meeting ends with documentation already done.
Why Miro users choose Blurt over built-in dictation for whiteboard 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 |
| Workshop vocabulary | Handles 'ideation', 'affinity map', 'user flow' correctly | Struggles with collaboration and design terms |
| Workflow integration | Works without disrupting Miro focus | System UI appears, breaks concentration |
| Reliability | Consistent transcription quality | Inconsistent, requires retries |
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