Voice to Text for Meeting Overload
Back-to-back meetings leave no time for written communication. Messages pile up. Emails go unanswered. By 5pm, you've spent 6 hours in calls and have 47 unread Slack messages. Blurt is the shortcut. Between meetings, hold a button and speak your response. A 3-minute email becomes 30 seconds. A thoughtful Slack reply takes 10 seconds instead of a minute. You stay responsive without staying late. Everyone is overloaded. Voice typing is how you keep up.
The Typing Problem
Your calendar is a wall of colored blocks
You look at tomorrow's schedule and there's no white space. Meetings from 9am to 6pm with maybe a 30-minute gap for lunch you'll probably lose to an 'urgent sync.' Every hour is claimed. Your typing time doesn't exist on this calendar because there's nowhere to put it. The work that happens between meetings has to happen somewhere, but your day says otherwise.
Messages pile up faster than you can respond
You leave one meeting with 12 new Slack notifications. By the time you've opened the first thread, your next meeting is starting. The backlog compounds. Important questions from your team. Updates from stakeholders. Requests that need responses. Each one takes typing time you don't have. By end of day, you're either answering messages at 8pm or accepting that some will never get replies.
Five-minute gaps aren't enough for a real response
You have exactly four minutes before your next call. Enough time to read an email that needs a thoughtful three-paragraph reply. Not enough time to type it. So you star it, flag it, promise yourself you'll get to it later. Later never comes. The gap between meetings is too short for keyboard communication but long enough to feel like wasted potential.
You're either in meetings or catching up from meetings
When you finally get an hour without calls, you spend it answering everything that accumulated during calls. That's not focused work. That's not strategic thinking. That's just treading water. The meetings themselves generate more communication than you can handle. Action items, follow-ups, stakeholder updates. Your job has become attending meetings and then typing about meetings.
You feel perpetually behind despite working constantly
Your days are full. You're never not working. But at the end of each week, you look at your to-do list and wonder where the time went. The answer is meetings. And the communication overhead that comes with meetings. You're not slacking. You're drowning in a calendar that leaves no room for the written work that actually moves things forward.
How It Works
Blurt turns your voice into text instantly. Use those 3-minute gaps between calls to actually respond to messages instead of just reading them.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut while in any app. Email, Slack, Notion, anywhere. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Speak your message
Talk naturally at conversation speed. Say what you'd type. Blurt handles punctuation and formatting automatically.
Release and send
Text appears at your cursor instantly. Hit send. Move on to your next meeting. A 3-minute email just took 30 seconds.
Real Scenarios
Quick Slack responses between meetings
Your meeting ends at 2:58. Next one starts at 3:00. You have two minutes and three threads that need replies. With Blurt, you hold a button and speak: 'Looks good to me. Ship it when you're ready.' Reply sent. Next thread. 'Let's discuss in the planning meeting Thursday. Add it to the agenda.' Done. 'I'll review the PR after my 4pm. Should have comments by EOD.' Three responses in 90 seconds. You join your next meeting having actually communicated.
Email replies that don't require a blocked hour
That email from your VP needs a real response. Three paragraphs explaining the project status, risks, and timeline. Normally you'd need 10 minutes of uninterrupted typing. With voice, you hold your hotkey and talk through it conversationally. Ninety seconds later, you have a well-structured reply. Edit quickly if needed, send. Back-to-back meetings no longer mean back-to-back email silence.
Sharing meeting context with absent teammates
Someone missed the meeting and needs the highlights. Typing up notes takes 15 minutes you don't have. Instead, you hold Blurt and talk: 'Quick summary from the product review. We're pushing the launch to March 15th, design is approved, main blocker is the API integration. Sarah is owning the integration, needs your input on the auth flow by Friday.' Thirty seconds. Your teammate is updated. You're not stressed.
Sending meeting follow-ups immediately
Right after a call ends, while the action items are fresh, you dictate the follow-up email. 'Thanks for the discussion today. Next steps: I'll send over the proposal by Wednesday, your team will review the technical requirements, we'll reconvene Friday at 2pm to finalize.' The email goes out before your next meeting starts. Follow-ups don't slip through the cracks because you handled them in the moment.
Responding to urgent pings during meeting transitions
Your phone buzzes with an urgent Slack from your manager during a meeting. You can't respond then, but the moment the meeting ends, you have 45 seconds before the next one. Hold your hotkey: 'Just saw this. Short answer is yes, we can accommodate that timeline. I'll send details after my 4pm.' Manager unblocked. Crisis averted. All while walking to your next conference room.
Drafting async updates for distributed teams
Your teammates in other time zones need updates before they wake up. You're in back-to-back calls all afternoon. In the small gaps, you dictate project updates: progress made, blockers hit, decisions needed. When your European colleagues start their day, the context is waiting for them. You didn't stay late typing. You spoke between meetings and moved on.
Answering interview scheduling threads quickly
You're hiring and the scheduling threads are endless. 'Yes, Thursday at 2pm works. Please send the calendar invite.' 'I can do either slot. Let's go with the morning to give me time to debrief before my 1:1.' Quick voice responses keep the hiring process moving without adding hours to your already-packed calendar. Candidates don't wait days for responses because you replied in seconds.
When every minute counts between meetings, reliability matters. Here's why Blurt beats built-in options.
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed to start | Single hotkey press, instant recording | Double-tap key, wait for activation indicator |
| Reliability | Works every time you need it | Frequently fails to activate or stops mid-sentence |
| Transcription speed | Text appears in under 500ms after speaking | 2-3 second delay, sometimes longer |
| Natural punctuation | Automatic commas, periods, question marks | Must say 'period' and 'comma' out loud |
| Between-meeting urgency | Fast enough for 2-minute windows | Too slow and unreliable for tight gaps |
| Frustration when time-pressed | Hold, speak, release, done | Often fails exactly when you need it most |
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