Voice to Text for Substack
Substack is where your best writing reaches your audience. But staring at a blank editor, wrestling with every sentence, slows you down. Blurt lets you hold a button, speak your ideas, and release. Your text appears instantly in any Substack draft, Notes post, or subscriber reply. No copying, no pasting, no interruption. Just talk and write.
The Typing Problem
The blank page paralyzes your best ideas
You have a newsletter idea that felt brilliant in the shower. You sit down to write. The cursor blinks. Twenty minutes pass. You have two sentences and both feel wrong. The energy that made the idea exciting has drained away. Your thoughts flow freely when you talk to friends about your topic, but typing turns them into lead.
Editing while drafting kills your momentum
You start a paragraph. Three words in, you delete and rewrite. You second-guess every sentence before finishing it. Two hours later, you have 400 words and hate all of them. The inner editor drowns the inner writer. You never get into a flow state because typing is slow enough that your critical brain catches up to every phrase.
Subscriber replies pile up unanswered
Someone paid to read your work and took time to write a thoughtful comment. They deserve a real response, not a quick thanks. But composing a genuine, helpful reply takes ten minutes of typing. When you have twenty comments waiting, that is three hours of work. You fall behind, and your most engaged readers feel ignored.
Notes posts feel like extra homework
You know you should post Notes regularly to stay visible. Quick thoughts, links, observations. But each Note still requires typing, and typing feels like work. You have fleeting ideas throughout the day that would make great Notes. By the time you sit down to type them, the moment has passed. Your Notes feed stays quiet.
Long-form essays take weeks instead of days
You have a 3,000-word piece in your head. The argument is clear. The examples are ready. But typing it takes a full weekend. Distractions creep in. You lose the thread. The essay sits half-finished in drafts for two weeks while you dread returning to it. Your publishing pace slows to a crawl.
How It Works
Blurt works everywhere in Substack: the post editor, Notes composer, comment replies, and subscriber chat. Anywhere you can type, you can talk.
Click into any Substack text field
Put your cursor in the newsletter editor, a Notes draft, a reply box, or the chat window.
Hold your hotkey and talk
Press your chosen key, speak naturally. Blurt adds punctuation and capitalization automatically.
Release and keep writing
Your text appears at the cursor. Edit if needed, or keep dictating the next section.
Real Scenarios
Getting the first draft down in one session
You have been thinking about this newsletter all week. The ideas are ready. Instead of typing for three hours, you open a fresh draft and hold the button. You talk through your opening hook, your main argument, each supporting point, your conclusion. Thirty minutes of speaking produces 2,500 words. The draft exists. Now you can edit something real instead of staring at emptiness.
Writing Notes posts throughout your day
You are reading an article and have a reaction worth sharing. Open Substack Notes, hold the button, speak your quick take in fifteen seconds. Post. Later, you see something on a walk that connects to your newsletter topic. Pull out your laptop, hold the button, capture the observation before it fades. Your Notes feed stays active because posting takes seconds, not minutes.
Responding to subscriber comments thoughtfully
A reader left a detailed comment with questions about your last post. They deserve more than a two-word reply. Hold the button and talk through your response like you are having a conversation with them. Cover their questions, add context, share appreciation. A three-paragraph reply that would take eight minutes to type happens in ninety seconds. Your readers feel heard.
Drafting essays during walks and commutes
You do your best thinking while moving. Ideas connect, arguments clarify, examples emerge. With your laptop and Blurt, you capture sections of your next essay while the thoughts are fresh. Walk for thirty minutes, come back with a thousand words drafted. The physical movement and verbal output work together. Typing could never happen this way.
Breaking through writers block mid-draft
You are stuck on a transition. The paragraph before is done, the paragraph after is clear in your head, but connecting them feels impossible. Stop typing. Hold the button. Talk through what you are trying to say, even if it is messy. The words come out. They are not perfect, but they exist. Edit them into shape. The block is broken.
Writing community posts for paid subscribers
Your paid subscribers want more access to your thinking. You want to post casual updates in the community section without it becoming another full newsletter. Hold the button, share what you have been working on, what you are reading, what questions you are wrestling with. Authentic community posts in minutes. Your subscribers get the behind-the-scenes access they pay for.
Capturing newsletter ideas before they disappear
You are in the shower and the perfect opening line hits you. You are falling asleep and finally understand the angle for next week's post. These moments pass quickly. Keep a Substack draft open, and when inspiration strikes, hold the button and capture the core idea in your own words. The seed is planted. You can grow it into a full post later.
Some writers use AI tools to generate content. Here is how Blurt differs.
| Blurt | AI Writing Tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Input method | Voice: hold button and talk | Keyboard: type prompts or outlines |
| Output | Your exact words, properly punctuated | AI-generated content based on prompts |
| Voice and style | 100% your authentic voice | Generic or imitated style |
| Reader trust | Readers get you, unfiltered | Readers may sense AI involvement |
| Originality | Every word is yours | Based on training data patterns |
| Pricing | $10/month or $99/year | Varies widely by tool |
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