Voice to Text for Hand Injury
A hand or wrist injury shouldn't mean your productivity stops. Whether you're recovering from a sprain, fracture, surgery, or sports injury, Blurt lets you keep working by converting your voice to text. Hold a button, speak naturally, release. Your words appear wherever your cursor is — emails, Slack, documents, anywhere. No painful typing. No awkward one-handed pecking. Just talk and text appears. Stay productive while your hand heals.
The Typing Problem
One-handed typing is painfully slow
With your dominant hand out of commission, every email takes three times longer. You're hunting and pecking with your good hand, making typos on every other word, backspacing constantly. A two-sentence reply becomes a five-minute ordeal. Work is piling up faster than you can respond.
Your doctor said to rest it, but work won't wait
The medical advice is clear: rest the injured hand, let it heal. But your inbox doesn't know that. Deadlines don't care about your sprained wrist. You're caught between following recovery instructions and keeping up with the basic demands of work.
Voice typing with Siri feels unreliable
You tried the built-in dictation. It works sometimes. Other times it misses half your words, adds random punctuation, or just stops listening mid-sentence. You end up typing corrections anyway — exactly what you're trying to avoid. It's not a solution you can rely on.
Text-to-speech apps feel overcomplicated
You downloaded a voice typing app and spent 20 minutes setting up accounts, configuring preferences, and watching tutorials. You just wanted to type without using your hands. Instead you got a productivity suite with features you'll never touch.
Recovery time is uncertain and frustrating
It might be two weeks. It might be two months. Every day you're managing pain, wondering when you can type normally again, and watching your work quality slip. The uncertainty makes everything harder. You need a solution that works for however long recovery takes.
How It Works
Blurt is dead simple. No setup complexity, no learning curve. Just voice to text that works.
Hold your hotkey
Press any key combination you choose. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening. Your injured hand stays resting.
Speak naturally
Say what you want to type. Talk at your normal pace. Blurt handles punctuation and capitalization automatically.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor instantly. No clicking, no copying, no extra steps. Just your words, typed out, ready to send.
Real Scenarios
Answering emails during wrist recovery
Your wrist is in a brace and typing is out of the question. But the project status email needs a response. Hold your hotkey with your good hand, say 'We're on track for Thursday delivery. The API integration is complete and we're running final tests today. Will send a detailed update tomorrow morning.' Release. Email done in 10 seconds. Your wrist stays resting.
Slack messages without painful pecking
Your team is pinging you on Slack while your hand is in a splint. Instead of one-finger typing, hold the button and say 'Good catch on the bug. I'll review the fix when I'm back at full capacity next week. Thanks for covering.' Reply sent in 3 seconds. No strain, no pain, no frustration.
Writing documents during surgery recovery
You had carpal tunnel release surgery and can't type for weeks. But the quarterly report is due. With Blurt, you dictate entire paragraphs naturally. The report gets written. Your healing hand stays bandaged and undisturbed. Recovery and productivity coexist.
Coding comments with a broken finger
A broken finger shouldn't mean your code goes undocumented. Move your cursor above the function, hold your hotkey, say 'This validates user input and returns early if the email format is invalid. Added to prevent the signup crash from issue 234.' Comment written without touching the keyboard.
Quick notes after a sports injury
You jammed your hand at the gym and typing hurts. But you need to capture meeting notes before you forget. Hold, speak your observations naturally, release. Notes captured. Your swollen hand stays elevated like it should be.
Responding to clients while your wrist heals
A sprained wrist doesn't mean ignoring client emails. Hold the button and speak: 'Thank you for the update. I've reviewed the proposal and have a few questions. Let's schedule a call for Thursday afternoon.' Professional response sent. Client handled. Wrist undisturbed.
Updating tickets and tasks one-handed
Your left hand is out of commission but Jira tickets need updating. With Blurt, you speak your status updates: 'Completed the database migration script. Tested locally. Ready for code review. Moving to the API endpoints next.' Tickets updated without typing a single character.
You have built-in dictation on your Mac. Here's why Blurt works better for injury recovery.
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Double-tap Fn key or click icon |
| Reliability | Consistent transcription every time | Often stops listening or fails silently |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay common |
| Long form | Handles paragraphs without dropping words | Struggles with extended dictation |
| Punctuation | Automatic and accurate | Requires voice commands like 'period' and 'comma' |
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