Voice to Text for Mobility Limitations
Keyboards were designed for a narrow range of physical abilities. If fine motor control, hand dexterity, or precise finger movements are challenging, typing becomes a barrier between you and your words. Blurt removes that barrier. Hold a button, speak naturally, and watch your words appear on screen. Your voice becomes your keyboard. No dexterity required. No accommodations needed. Just speak and type at the speed of thought.
The Typing Problem
Keyboards assume abilities you may not have
Standard keyboards require precise finger placement, coordinated movements across 100+ keys, and sustained fine motor control. For many people, this is difficult, painful, or impossible. The keyboard becomes a gatekeeper, deciding who can communicate efficiently and who cannot. Your thoughts are just as valuable as anyone else's. The input method should not determine who gets heard.
Existing adaptive tools often feel like workarounds
On-screen keyboards, switch controls, eye tracking, and other adaptive technologies are valuable tools. But they can also be slow, require extensive setup, or draw attention to the accommodation itself. Sometimes you just want to type a message without it becoming an event. Sometimes you want a tool that feels less like an adaptation and more like an advantage.
Fatigue compounds throughout the day
Even when typing is possible, the effort accumulates. What starts as manageable in the morning becomes exhausting by afternoon. Each email costs more energy than it should. You find yourself shortening messages, avoiding responses, or choosing silence when you have something to say. The effort-to-output ratio of typing works against you, hour after hour.
Speed matters for staying in the conversation
In fast-moving Slack channels, team discussions, and real-time collaboration, slow typing means being left behind. By the time you finish composing a thought, the conversation has moved on. Your valuable contributions arrive too late. Not because you think slowly, but because the input method creates an artificial delay between your mind and your message.
People underestimate what you can do
When typing is slow or difficult, others may mistake the input limitation for a cognitive one. They don't see the sharp mind behind the struggling fingers. They make assumptions. They talk over you. They move on without you. A faster, more natural input method changes the dynamic. It lets your thoughts speak for themselves.
How It Works
Blurt works anywhere you can place a cursor on macOS. Email, Slack, documents, forms, social media. One input method that works everywhere.
Hold your button
Press your chosen hotkey or button. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening. Choose any key combination that works for your setup.
Speak naturally
Say what you want to type at your normal speaking pace. Blurt handles punctuation and capitalization automatically. No special commands to learn.
Release and text appears
Let go of the button and your words appear at the cursor. Ready to send, save, or continue speaking. Your voice, your words, instantly typed.
Real Scenarios
Keeping up with fast-moving Slack conversations
The team chat moves fast. Ideas fly back and forth. With voice typing, you participate in real-time. Hold the button, share your thought, release. Your message appears instantly. No delay while your fingers catch up to your brain. You're in the conversation, not watching it from the sidelines. Your perspective gets heard when it matters, not five minutes later.
Writing emails without the physical tax
A detailed email that would take 20 minutes of laborious typing takes 3 minutes of speaking. Hold the button, explain your thinking out loud, release. The email is written. The mental energy you save can go toward the content itself, not the mechanics of getting it onto the screen. Reply to everything that needs a response without rationing your physical capacity.
Filling out forms and applications
Job applications, medical forms, account setups. Forms assume you can type quickly and accurately. Voice typing levels the playing field. Speak your answers naturally. Address, experience, essay questions. Complete forms at the speed of speech, not the speed of your most difficult physical task. The form gets filled. The application gets submitted. The opportunity stays open.
Taking notes during meetings and calls
Capture information in real-time without looking down at a keyboard or losing track of the discussion. Listen, then hold your button and speak a quick note. Your attention stays on the meeting. Your notes stay complete. You participate as a full equal in the discussion, not as someone struggling to keep up with the documentation.
Coding documentation and comments
If you write code, you know the documentation never gets written because the typing is too much after writing actual code. Voice typing changes the equation. Add thorough comments by speaking them. Write README files by explaining them out loud. The code gets documented. Your future self thanks you. Your teammates understand your work.
End-of-day energy preservation
By afternoon, your physical resources are depleted. But work isn't done. Voice typing lets you continue producing at full capacity even when your hands are done for the day. The important email gets sent. The project update gets written. You end the day having accomplished what you needed to, not having stopped short because your body said no.
Social and personal communication
Texts to friends. Birthday messages. Social media posts. Personal communication matters as much as work communication. Voice typing removes the barrier from all of it. Stay connected with the people who matter. Respond to messages. Share your life. The keyboard doesn't get to decide which relationships you maintain.
macOS includes built-in dictation, but Blurt is designed for people who rely on voice as their primary input method.
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy you can depend on | Inconsistent, often fails silently |
| Activation | Single hotkey, customizable to your needs | Fixed key press or voice command |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | Multi-second delay before transcription |
| Long-form dictation | Handles extended speech smoothly | Times out, loses content, requires restarts |
| Punctuation | Automatic, no commands needed | Requires saying 'period' and 'comma' |
| Designed for | People who rely on voice daily | Occasional use as supplement to typing |
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