Voice to Text for Slow Typers
Your brain works faster than your fingers. Most people think at well over 100 words per minute but type at maybe 40. That gap is where ideas get lost, where emails take forever, where you start dreading written communication. Blurt closes that gap instantly. Hold a button, speak your thoughts at your natural pace, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — emails, documents, messages, anywhere. You speak at 120-150 words per minute. Your output triples. No typing courses, no practice drills. Just talk.
The Typing Problem
Your ideas outrun your fingers every single time
You know exactly what you want to say. The thought is crystal clear in your mind. But by the time your fingers hunt for the right keys and peck out the words, half the brilliance has evaporated. You end up with a watered-down version of what you meant. The gap between thinking and typing isn't just slow — it's a creativity killer.
Written communication feels like running through mud
Other people fire off emails in minutes. You watch your cursor blink while your fingers fumble across the keyboard. A three-sentence Slack message takes you five minutes. By the time you send it, the conversation has moved on. You start avoiding written communication altogether, which hurts you professionally but feels better than the frustration.
Typing courses never stuck, and you're tired of trying
You've tried learning to touch type. Maybe you got through a few lessons before life got busy. Maybe you practiced for weeks and still found yourself looking at the keyboard. Typing is a motor skill that some people pick up easily. For you, it never clicked. And at this point, you have better things to do than drill home row exercises.
You're judged by your output speed, not your ideas
In meetings, you're the sharp one. You see solutions others miss. But in writing, you seem slow and disengaged because your responses take forever. Colleagues who type faster appear more productive even when their ideas are weaker. The workplace rewards typing speed as a proxy for competence. It's unfair, but it's real.
Long-form writing feels like a marathon you never signed up for
You have a report due. It should take an hour based on what you need to say. But typing it out will take three or four. The mental energy required to translate thoughts through slow fingers exhausts you before you're halfway done. You procrastinate on writing tasks not because you don't know what to write, but because the process of getting it down is so laborious.
How It Works
Blurt works in every app on your Mac — email, Slack, Word, Google Docs, anywhere you can place a cursor. Your voice becomes your keyboard.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening. This single keypress is the only typing required.
Speak naturally
Say what you want to type at your normal talking speed — 120 to 150 words per minute. Blurt handles punctuation and capitalization automatically.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor instantly. No correction, no editing. What took you three minutes to type now takes thirty seconds to speak.
Real Scenarios
Responding to emails at the speed of thought
Your inbox has 15 messages waiting. Each needs a thoughtful reply. With typing, that's an hour of frustration. With Blurt, you hold your hotkey and speak each response as it comes to mind. Fifteen emails done in 20 minutes. Your replies are longer, more detailed, and more natural because you're not fighting the keyboard to get them out.
Keeping up with fast-moving Slack conversations
The team channel moves quickly. By the time you type a response, four more messages have appeared and the topic has shifted. With Blurt, you speak your reply in seconds. You're part of the conversation in real-time instead of always arriving late with comments on topics that have already moved on.
Writing reports and documents without the marathon
That quarterly report needs two thousand words. Typing it would take you all afternoon. With Blurt, you talk through your analysis section by section. The words flow from your voice to the page at speaking speed. What was a dreaded four-hour slog becomes an engaging hour of speaking your expertise.
Taking notes during meetings without missing anything
You're in a video call and someone says something important. You used to miss the next point while typing the last one. Now you hold your Blurt hotkey, speak a quick summary, and you're back to listening in seconds. Your notes capture more because speaking is fast enough to keep up with the meeting.
Drafting social media posts and messages
You want to share a thought or respond to a comment. Typing out something casual takes almost as long as something formal because your fingers don't discriminate. With Blurt, casual messages feel casual again — just say it, and it appears. The low-stakes stuff stops feeling like high effort.
Writing longer personal messages to friends and family
You want to send a real message to someone, not just a quick text. But typing out a heartfelt paragraph takes so long that you often default to something short instead. With Blurt, you can speak those longer messages as naturally as if you were leaving a voicemail. Connection doesn't require keyboard endurance.
Finally matching your verbal communication skills
In conversation, you're articulate and quick. Your verbal reasoning is strong. Only in writing do you seem slower. Blurt makes your written communication match your verbal ability. You're the same sharp person on screen as you are in person.
Why slow typers choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Accuracy | High accuracy with automatic punctuation | Frequent errors require keyboard corrections |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | Noticeable lag disrupts speaking flow |
| Ease of use | One hotkey, hold and speak | Multiple activation steps, commands to learn |
| Correction overhead | Minimal — accuracy means less editing | Errors erase speed gains with fix-up typing |
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