Voice to Text for Physicians
You became a physician to help patients, not to spend hours typing notes. Blurt lets you document encounters, write referral letters, and reply to messages using your voice. Hold a button, speak naturally, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — in your browser, email, any application. No training required. No complex voice commands. Just talk and the words appear.
The Typing Problem
Documentation eating into patient time
You finished seeing a patient 20 minutes ago. Now you're sitting at your desk, hunting and pecking through documentation, trying to remember what they said about their symptoms last week. Every minute you spend typing is a minute you're not with your next patient. The waiting room keeps filling up while your notes pile up.
After-hours charting that never ends
It's 7 PM and you're still at your desk. Your family is waiting for dinner. But you have twelve notes to finish before tomorrow morning. The documentation followed you home again, like it does most nights. You spend more time writing about patient care than actually providing it.
Referral letters that take forever to write
The specialist needs a detailed referral letter. You know exactly what to say — you could explain the case out loud in two minutes. But typing it out with proper formatting takes fifteen. So the letter waits in your to-do list while the patient waits for their referral.
Clicking through endless EHR fields
The EHR wants you to click seventeen different boxes before you can write a single sentence of narrative. When you finally get to type, your thoughts have fragmented into system requirements. The story of what happened to your patient gets lost in checkboxes and dropdown menus.
Your neck and shoulders ache from hunching over keyboards
Twelve years of medical training didn't prepare you for typing eight hours a day. Your neck hurts. Your shoulders are tight. You've tried ergonomic keyboards and standing desks, but the fundamental problem remains: too much typing, not enough talking. Medicine used to be about conversation, not data entry.
How It Works
Blurt works in any application on macOS — your browser, email client, word processor, or any text field where you document patient care.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen keyboard shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Speak naturally
Dictate your note, letter, or message. Blurt handles punctuation automatically.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor. Edit as needed and move on to your next patient.
Real Scenarios
Documenting a patient encounter immediately after
Your patient just left the exam room. While the visit is fresh in your mind, hold the button and speak: 'Patient presents with two-week history of progressive lower back pain, worse with prolonged sitting, no radiation to legs, no red flag symptoms.' The narrative flows naturally in 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes of typing. Your notes are done before you see your next patient.
Writing referral letters between appointments
You have five minutes before your next patient. That's enough time to dictate a complete referral letter: 'Dear Dr. Martinez, I am referring Mrs. Johnson for evaluation of persistent atrial fibrillation despite rate control with metoprolol. She remains symptomatic with palpitations and reduced exercise tolerance. Recent echocardiogram shows preserved ejection fraction.' Done. Letter complete. Next patient.
Responding to patient messages in the portal
Fifteen patient messages are waiting in your inbox. Each would take 2-3 minutes to type. With Blurt, you hold the button and say your response naturally: 'Your lab results look good. Your hemoglobin A1c came down to 6.8, which is excellent progress. Let's continue the current regimen and recheck in three months.' Reply sent in 20 seconds. Inbox cleared before lunch.
Dictating procedure notes while details are fresh
You just finished a procedure and need to document it before the details fade. Hold your button and speak through the whole thing: 'Skin prepped with chlorhexidine, local anesthesia with one percent lidocaine, eighteen-gauge needle inserted under ultrasound guidance, fifty milliliters of straw-colored fluid aspirated, samples sent for cell count and culture.' Complete note in 45 seconds while scrubbing out.
Adding context to templated notes
Your EHR template captured the vitals and chief complaint, but the assessment needs your clinical reasoning. Instead of typing, you dictate: 'Given the acute onset, pleuritic nature, and recent long-haul flight, this presentation is concerning for pulmonary embolism. Will obtain CT angiography and start empiric anticoagulation pending results.' Clinical thinking captured in seconds, not minutes.
Writing disability or insurance letters
The insurance company needs a detailed letter justifying the MRI. You could spend 20 minutes typing, or you could talk: 'This patient requires MRI lumbar spine due to persistent radiculopathy despite six weeks of conservative management including physical therapy. Clinical exam demonstrates L5 dermatomal sensory loss and positive straight leg raise at 40 degrees.' Done. Justification complete. Authorization submitted.
Sending quick updates to care team members
The nurse needs to know about a medication change. You need to message the social worker about discharge planning. Hold the button: 'Please hold the noon metoprolol, we are adjusting the dose based on this morning's heart rate. New order to follow.' Care coordination happens without typing interrupting your patient flow.
Why physicians choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or double-press key |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Medical terminology | Handles drug names and clinical terms well | Often misspells medications and diagnoses |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy across long sessions | Degrades during extended use, fails silently |
| Simplicity | $10/month, no contract, works immediately | Free but unreliable for professional use |
| Privacy | Your audio, your notes, no training on your data | May use data for Apple's voice improvement |
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