Voice to Text for Screenwriters
The best scenes come when you're in the zone — seeing the movie in your head, hearing the dialogue, feeling the rhythm. But typing pulls you out. Your fingers can't keep up with your imagination. Blurt lets you speak your scenes as you see them. Hold a button, describe the action, speak the dialogue, release. Text appears in Final Draft, Highland, Fade In, or anywhere you write. No switching apps. No losing the moment. Just talk and the words appear.
The Typing Problem
Typing can't keep up with how you see the scene
The movie is playing in your head. You see the chase, the kiss, the revelation. But by the time your fingers type 'EXT. ROOFTOP - NIGHT', the vision is already fading. The gap between imagination and keyboard is where great scenes go to die. You end up with flat descriptions because you couldn't capture what you actually saw in that flash of inspiration.
Scene descriptions feel like a chore
You love writing dialogue. The action lines? Not so much. 'She walks to the window and looks out' is what you type because describing the actual emotional weight of that moment takes too long. Your scripts end up with sparse, functional descriptions that don't convey your vision. Directors and readers can't see what you see because you never had time to write it down.
Treatment writing is its own special torture
You need to write a ten-page treatment to pitch your feature. The story is clear in your head — you could tell it out loud in twenty minutes. But typing it out? That's a full day of staring at a blank document, trying to make prose sound compelling. You've rewritten the first paragraph four times and you're still on page one.
Notes and feedback sessions move too fast
The producer is giving notes. Good notes. Specific notes about the third act that would actually fix the story. But you're typing frantically, trying to capture everything, and you're already three points behind. By the end of the call, your notes are incomplete fragments that won't make sense tomorrow. You'll have to schedule another call just to re-hear what you missed.
Your wrists and shoulders are paying the price
A feature script is 100+ pages. A TV season is 200+. That's hundreds of thousands of keystrokes per project, year after year. Your wrists ache after long writing sessions. Your shoulders are tight from hunching. You're in your thirties and already worried about whether your body can sustain this career for another two decades.
How It Works
Blurt works in every screenwriting app — Final Draft, Highland, Fade In, WriterSolo, even Google Docs. Anywhere you can place a cursor, Blurt can put text.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Speak your scene
Describe the action, speak the dialogue, narrate the moment. Blurt handles punctuation.
Release and it appears
Text appears at your cursor. Edit and refine from there.
Real Scenarios
First drafts at the speed of thought
You're outlining a new feature and the opening scene just clicked. Instead of slowly typing it out, you hold your hotkey and speak: 'Exterior, city street, dawn. Empty except for a single figure walking toward camera. This is MAYA, late thirties, wearing yesterday's clothes. She stops at a payphone — who still uses payphones? — and dials from memory.' The whole scene described in fifteen seconds instead of three minutes. You stay in the creative zone while the words pile up.
Dialogue that sounds like real speech
Great dialogue sounds like how people actually talk — with rhythm, interruptions, half-finished thoughts. When you type it, you tend to over-polish. When you speak it, you naturally capture that messy, human quality. Hold the button and perform the lines: 'I didn't mean to — look, can we just — forget it. Forget I said anything.' Dialogue written by speaking sounds more authentic because it was spoken first.
Scene descriptions that actually convey emotion
Instead of 'She sits alone at the bar,' you can describe what you really see: 'She sits at the bar, one hand wrapped around a glass she hasn't touched in twenty minutes. The bartender has stopped asking. She's not here to drink. She's here because this is the last place they were together, and she's not ready to let that go.' Rich, visual, emotional scene description spoken in ten seconds.
Treatments and pitch documents
The feature treatment needs to capture your story's heart in prose form. Instead of typing for hours, you narrate it like you're telling a friend: 'Act two opens with Maya discovering the letter. Everything she believed about her father unravels in a single paragraph of his handwriting. She has to go to Buenos Aires. She has to find the woman in the photograph.' A ten-page treatment dictated in an hour instead of a day.
Capturing notes in real-time
Your showrunner is giving episode notes over Zoom. Instead of typing fragments, you hold your hotkey and speak the notes verbatim as you hear them: 'Make the detective more skeptical in scene three. The reveal comes too early — push it to the end of act two. Add a moment where they almost connect before the interruption.' Complete notes you can actually use, captured without missing a word.
Rewriting scenes from scratch
The studio note says 'this scene isn't working.' You know they're right. Instead of trying to fix broken sentences, you delete the whole scene and speak a new version fresh: 'Let me try this again. They're in the car, stuck in traffic, and she finally says what she's been holding back for the whole movie.' A complete rewrite in two minutes instead of an hour of frustrated editing.
Writing when you're away from your desk
You're on a walk and the solution to your third act problem just hit you. Pull out your laptop, open your script, and speak the new scene before you forget it. No need to find a place to sit and type. No need to text yourself notes you'll never understand later. The scene goes directly into your script while it's still fresh.
Why screenwriters choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or double-tap function key |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy every time | Often fails silently or stops listening |
| Creative flow | Stays out of your way while you work | Pop-ups and UI elements break concentration |
| Industry terms | Handles screenplay terminology well | Struggles with INT., EXT., V.O., O.S. |
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