Voice to Text for Scrum Masters
Your job is facilitating teams, not typing meeting notes. Hold a button, say what you need to document, and release. Your retrospective insight, impediment log, or stakeholder update appears instantly in Confluence, Jira, or wherever your cursor is. No copying, no pasting, no learning curve. Just talk and type.
The Typing Problem
Retrospective notes that miss half the insights
The team is having a breakthrough conversation about what went wrong in the last sprint. You are facilitating, guiding the discussion, watching for body language cues. But you are also frantically typing to capture what people said. By the time you finish documenting one insight, two more have passed you by. Your retrospective notes are always incomplete, and the best observations never make it into the action items.
Impediment documentation that falls behind
A developer mentions a blocker during standup. You make a mental note to log it properly. Three standups later, you have five impediments in your head and none in the system. When leadership asks for the impediment report, you are reconstructing conversations from memory. The patterns you should be spotting get lost in the documentation backlog.
Stakeholder updates during ceremony-packed days
Sprint planning in the morning, refinement after lunch, stakeholder demo at three. Somewhere in there, you promised the product owner a summary of velocity trends. It is 5pm, the demo just ended, and you have not started the update. You rush through it, missing context that would have helped leadership understand why the team velocity dipped. The update ships half-baked.
Team facilitation notes lost in real-time
You are running a team health check exercise. People are sharing honestly about burnout and communication gaps. These are golden insights that should inform your coaching approach for the next quarter. But you cannot type and facilitate at the same time. You try to remember the key phrases afterward, but the specifics are gone. Your facilitation notes become generic summaries instead of actionable observations.
Process improvement proposals that never get written
You spotted three opportunities to improve the team's workflow this week. You know exactly what to propose and why it would help. But writing a proper proposal with context, expected outcomes, and implementation steps takes an hour you do not have. The ideas stay in your head while the team keeps hitting the same friction points. Your backlog of unwritten proposals grows every sprint.
How It Works
Blurt works in every tool Scrum Masters use daily: Confluence for retrospective docs, Jira for impediment tracking, Slack for stakeholder updates, Miro for facilitation notes.
Hold your button
Press your chosen hotkey or click the menu bar icon.
Talk naturally
Say what you want to document. Blurt adds punctuation and capitalization.
Release and done
Your text appears at your cursor. Capture the next insight.
Real Scenarios
Live retrospective documentation
The team is deep in discussion about deployment failures from last sprint. Someone just identified the root cause and three people are building on the insight. You hold the button and quietly say 'Deployment failures traced to missing environment variable validation. Team agrees we need a pre-deploy checklist that includes env var verification. Sarah will draft the checklist by Wednesday.' The insight lands in Confluence before the conversation moves on. You captured the what, the why, and the action item without breaking eye contact with the team.
Impediment logging during standup
Your backend developer mentions waiting on API access from the partner team. This is the third time this sprint. You hold the button and say 'Impediment: Backend team blocked on partner API access. Third occurrence this sprint. Impact is two story points per day. Escalating to engineering director today.' The impediment is logged in Jira before standup ends. When you talk to the director, you have the pattern documented with impact metrics.
Stakeholder updates between meetings
You have eight minutes before sprint review. The product owner pinged asking for a quick summary of what is being demoed. Hold the button, say 'We are demoing three completed stories: user profile redesign, notification preferences, and the search performance fix. One story on payment integration carried over due to the third-party API delay we discussed Tuesday. Team velocity is on track with the two-sprint average.' Release. Update sent. You walk into sprint review on time and prepared.
Team health observations during exercises
You are running a team health check. One developer shares that cross-team dependencies are killing their focus time. Others nod. This is a coaching opportunity. You hold the button during the transition between topics and quietly dictate 'Team health observation: Cross-team dependencies cited as primary focus disruptor by three team members. Consider proposing dependency-free focus blocks in next process improvement discussion. Follow up individually with Marcus who seemed most affected.' Your coaching notes are captured while you are still in facilitation mode.
Process improvement proposals on the fly
You just wrapped refinement and realized the estimation discussions are taking too long because the team debates story points instead of using reference stories. The improvement is clear in your head. Hold the button and talk through it: 'Process improvement proposal: Implement reference story calibration for estimation. Current state: Team debates point values for 10+ minutes per story. Proposed state: Create a reference story document with examples for 1, 3, 5, and 8 point stories. Expected outcome: Reduce estimation time by 50% and improve consistency across estimators.' Draft done in 90 seconds. Clean it up tonight and present it next week.
Sprint planning documentation
The team just pulled stories into the sprint and discussed capacity adjustments for the upcoming holiday. You need to capture the planning decisions for anyone who missed the meeting. Hold the button and say 'Sprint 14 planning summary: Committed to 34 story points against adjusted capacity of 38 points due to holiday on Thursday. Priority items: checkout flow completion, mobile push notifications, and tech debt reduction on the caching layer. Key risk: Dependency on design assets for the mobile work. Design team confirmed delivery by Wednesday.' Planning notes documented before people leave the room.
Coaching conversation follow-ups
You just finished a one-on-one with a developer struggling with estimation accuracy. The conversation surfaced specific coaching points you want to remember. Hold the button and document your notes: 'Coaching notes for Alex: Tends to underestimate integration complexity. Agreed to pair with Priya on next integration story for calibration. Will check in after sprint 15. Personal goal is to reduce carry-over rate. Responded well to specific examples versus general feedback.' Your coaching log stays current without stealing time from your next meeting.
Why Blurt over built-in Mac dictation?
| Blurt | Apple Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Hold a hotkey, instant start | Double-tap Fn or click dictation icon |
| Speed | Sub-500ms latency, feels instant | 2-3 second delay before it starts listening |
| Punctuation | Automatic punctuation and capitalization | You must say 'period' and 'comma' out loud |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy across accents | Often misses words or stops listening |
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