Voice to Text for Tendinitis
Tendinitis often comes from doing what you love — your work, your hobbies, your craft. The inflammation in your hands, wrists, or forearms makes every keystroke a reminder that something needs to change. But stopping work isn't an option. Blurt gives your tendons the rest they desperately need while letting you keep producing. Hold a button, speak your thoughts, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — emails, documents, code comments, messages. No typing required. Your tendons rest while your work continues.
The Typing Problem
Every keystroke reminds you something is wrong
That dull ache in your wrist starts around 10am and builds throughout the day. By afternoon, it's sharp enough to make you wince. You've tried wrist braces, ergonomic keyboards, standing desks. They help a little, but the fundamental problem remains: your job requires thousands of keystrokes daily, and your tendons can't keep up. You're caught between your body's need to rest and your career's demand to produce.
Taking breaks means falling behind
Every doctor, physical therapist, and ergonomics article says the same thing: take breaks, reduce typing, let it heal. But they don't explain how to do that when you have deadlines. Every 10-minute break means 10 minutes of work piling up. Every day you take it easy means colleagues picking up your slack. The guilt of resting feels almost as bad as the pain of pushing through.
You're worried about your long-term career
You're not just dealing with today's pain — you're thinking about the next 20 or 30 years. If your tendons are this inflamed now, what happens in five years? Ten? You've read about people who had to change careers entirely because of RSI. The thought of losing the ability to do your work because of an injury keeps you up at night. This isn't just discomfort; it's a threat to your future.
The pain affects more than just work
It's not just about typing at work anymore. Opening jars hurts. Playing guitar — something you used to love — is now off-limits. Even holding your phone for too long aggravates it. The inflammation that started as a work problem has spread into every part of your life. You're constantly aware of your hands in a way you never were before.
You've tried everything and nothing sticks
Compression sleeves, ice packs, stretching routines, anti-inflammatory supplements, massage therapy. Each solution helps for a while, then the pain comes back because the root cause — the sheer volume of repetitive motion — never actually changes. You're treating symptoms while the underlying problem continues. What you need isn't another accessory; you need a fundamentally different way to get text onto the screen.
How It Works
Blurt works in every app you use — email, documents, Slack, your browser, your IDE. Anywhere you can put a cursor, Blurt can insert text without you typing a single key.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Talk naturally
Say what you want to type. Speak at your normal pace — Blurt handles punctuation automatically.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor. No copying, no pasting, no extra steps. Your tendons never moved.
Real Scenarios
Writing emails without aggravating your wrists
That email you've been putting off because typing hurts? Hold your hotkey and just say it: 'Hi Sarah, I reviewed the proposal and have a few thoughts. The timeline looks reasonable, but I think we need to add a buffer for the testing phase. Can we schedule a call this week to discuss?' Released, sent, done. Your response went out, your wrists stayed still, and your tendons got a few more minutes of rest.
Getting through high-volume typing days
Some days are unavoidably heavy — quarterly reports, major documentation updates, deadline crunches. Instead of pushing through the pain and paying for it tomorrow, use voice for the bulk of your text. Save your limited typing capacity for the things that truly require it, like keyboard shortcuts and quick edits. You can get through the heavy day without setting your recovery back by weeks.
Responding to Slack without accumulating strain
It's not the big documents that hurt most — it's the constant small interactions. Slack messages, quick replies, status updates. Each one is just a few seconds of typing, but they add up to hundreds of keystrokes per hour. Voice-typing these micro-interactions eliminates the accumulated strain. Hold, speak, release. Your message posts, your tendons rest.
Writing documentation while resting your hands
Documentation is prose-heavy work that can take hours. Hours of continuous typing when your tendons are inflamed is a recipe for a flare-up. But speaking comes naturally — you can explain how something works faster by talking than by typing anyway. The documentation gets written, gets written well, and your hands get to heal.
Continuing your side projects and hobbies
Maybe it's a blog you love writing, a novel you're working on, or code for a personal project. Tendinitis shouldn't mean giving up the creative work that brings you joy. Voice typing lets you keep building, keep creating, keep expressing yourself — all while your hands get the break they need to actually recover.
Managing the afternoon pain spike
You know the pattern: mornings are tolerable, but by 2pm the inflammation is screaming. Instead of pushing through and paying for it all evening, switch to voice for the afternoon hours when your tendons are most vulnerable. You're not giving up productivity; you're strategically protecting your hands when they need it most.
Recovering from a flare-up without stopping work
Your doctor said to rest for two weeks, but you can't take two weeks off. With voice typing, 'rest' doesn't have to mean 'stop working.' You can give your tendons near-complete rest — reserving typing for only essential keyboard shortcuts — while still meeting your deadlines. Recovery and productivity can coexist.
Why people with tendinitis choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or double-tap keyboard |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy across sessions | Often fails silently or mishears |
| All-day use | Built for continuous daily use | Designed for occasional quick dictation |
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