Voice to Text for Traders
Markets move fast. Your documentation should keep up. Between monitoring positions, analyzing price action, and executing trades, stopping to type detailed notes means missing opportunities. Blurt lets you capture trade rationale, document risk assessments, and update clients while your eyes stay on the screens. Hold a button, speak your analysis, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — in your order management system, Bloomberg chat, email, compliance logs, anywhere. No context switching. No breaking your market focus. Just talk and the notes write themselves.
The Typing Problem
Documenting trade rationale in real-time
You see the setup forming. RSI divergence, volume confirmation, key support level holding. You know exactly why this trade makes sense, but typing it out means looking away from the chart. By the time you finish documenting, the entry is gone. So you take the trade without notes. Three weeks later, compliance asks why you entered that position and you're reconstructing logic from memory. Or worse, you're reviewing losing trades with no record of what you were thinking.
Keeping clients informed during volatile sessions
The market is moving and your phone is lighting up. Five clients want updates on their positions. Each needs a personalized message explaining what's happening and what you're doing about it. Typing individual emails while managing positions is impossible. You send brief 'will update later' replies that leave clients anxious. By the time you can write proper updates, the moment has passed and your explanations feel stale.
Risk assessment notes that never get written
Every position should have documented risk parameters. Stop levels, position sizing rationale, correlation considerations, max drawdown tolerance. You know this intellectually. In practice, you're juggling eight positions and two more ideas developing. Writing detailed risk notes for each trade means falling behind the market. So your risk documentation is sparse, and your post-mortems lack the context you need to improve.
Market analysis that stays in your head
Your morning analysis takes 45 minutes. You've identified key levels, noted overnight developments, assessed sentiment across sectors. This analysis is gold — but it's all in your head. Writing it down would take another 30 minutes, time you don't have before the open. By midday, half your insights are forgotten. You make decisions without reference to your morning framework because it was never captured.
Compliance requirements eating into trading time
Regulators want documentation. Your firm wants documentation. Every significant decision needs a paper trail. But every minute spent typing compliance notes is a minute not spent making money. You batch your documentation at end of day, reconstructing decisions hours after the fact. The notes are less accurate and take longer to write because the context has faded. Compliance becomes a burden instead of a natural part of your workflow.
How It Works
Blurt works in every app traders use — Bloomberg Terminal, trading platforms, order management systems, Outlook, Slack, compliance software. Anywhere you can type.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Speak your thoughts
Dictate your trade rationale, market analysis, or client update. Blurt handles punctuation.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor. No copying, no pasting, no extra steps.
Real Scenarios
Capturing trade rationale as you enter positions
The setup is perfect. You're about to go long on a breakout with volume confirmation. As you enter the order, you hold your hotkey and speak: 'Long EUR/USD at 1.0842, breaking above 20-day resistance with strong volume. Dollar weakness confirmed across majors. Stop below 1.0815, targeting 1.0920 based on measured move from consolidation range. Risk/reward approximately 3:1.' Your order executes and the rationale is documented simultaneously. Thirty seconds total. When you review this trade in a month, you'll know exactly what you were thinking.
Real-time client updates during market moves
Markets are selling off and clients are nervous. You hold your button and speak: 'Quick update on the selloff — this appears technically driven, likely systematic deleveraging as we broke below the 200-day moving average. Our positioning is hedged and we're using the dislocation to add to our conviction long in the energy sector. Will send detailed analysis tonight.' Send to multiple clients in 20 seconds. They're informed, you're back to managing the move.
Documenting risk parameters on every position
You just sized into a new trade. Click your position notes field, hold button: 'Position risk assessment — 2% of portfolio capital at risk with stop at previous swing low. Correlation to existing book is moderate given our short dollar bias elsewhere. Maximum acceptable drawdown is 50 bps before reassessment. Thesis invalidation if price closes below support for two consecutive sessions.' Every trade gets proper risk documentation because it takes ten seconds instead of three minutes.
Morning market analysis before the open
You've done your prep work. Now capture it before it evaporates. Hold button: 'Pre-market analysis, Tuesday the 15th. Overnight flows show institutional buying in tech, particularly semis. Key level today is 4,520 on the S&P — above that, squeeze potential as shorts cover. Watch for Fed commentary at 11 AM which could override technicals. Favoring long bias in growth names, particularly NVDA if we clear overnight highs.' Your entire morning framework documented in 30 seconds while you set up your screens.
End-of-day trade journal entries
Markets closed. Time to log the day while it's fresh. Hold button: 'Trade review, today was net positive 1.2%. Best trade was the long XLF entry on the yield curve steepening — thesis played out exactly. Mistake was cutting the crude position too early, left 40 bps on the table due to impatience. Lesson: when thesis is intact and stops not threatened, let winners run. Tomorrow watching for follow-through on bank strength.' Journal complete while your screens wind down.
Compliance documentation in real-time
You're executing a large block order. Compliance needs documentation of execution rationale. As you work the order, you dictate: 'Working 50,000 shares of ABC, using VWAP algorithm to minimize market impact. Splitting across three venues for best execution. Client requested completion by 2 PM, on track to finish with estimated slippage under 5 bps versus arrival price.' Compliance box checked without interrupting your execution focus.
Intraday position updates for the desk
The head trader wants status on your book. Hold button: 'Current positioning — net long equities with largest concentration in cyclicals. Added to XLE this morning on the pullback, now 3% of book. Reduced tech exposure by half yesterday's position, locking in gains. Risk metrics within limits, VAR at 80% of allocation. Main risk is a risk-off move given our cyclical tilt.' Update sent to the chat in seconds. Back to your screens.
Why traders choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or use 'Hey Siri' |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Trading terminology | Handles tickers, basis points, Greeks correctly | Struggles with financial and trading jargon |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy under pressure | Often fails silently or mishears |
| Workflow integration | Works in Bloomberg, trading platforms, OMS | Inconsistent in specialized applications |
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