Voice to Text for Fast Thinkers
Your brain generates ideas faster than your fingers can capture them. By the time you've typed the first sentence, the brilliant follow-up thought has evaporated. Blurt closes this gap — hold a button, speak naturally, and watch your ideas become text at 150 words per minute instead of 40. No more losing thoughts to slow typing. $10/month or try the first 1,000 words free.
The Typing Problem
The thought was perfect — until you started typing
You had it. The exact right way to phrase that idea, explain that concept, or structure that argument. Then your fingers started moving and your brain had to split attention between thinking and typing. By the time you finished the first clause, the rest was gone. Not forgotten, exactly — just no longer accessible. You know it was good. You just can't remember what it was.
Your internal monologue runs laps around your typing speed
The average person thinks at 400 words per minute but types at 40. That's a 10x gap between having an idea and capturing it. Every sentence you type, your brain has already moved on to nine more thoughts. You're constantly choosing which ideas to let go of because you simply cannot type fast enough to catch them all.
Typing interrupts the flow state
When ideas are flowing, you're in a rare and valuable mental state. But typing demands conscious attention — the right keys, fixing typos, formatting. Each mechanical interruption risks breaking the flow. Your hands become a bottleneck that your mind has to slow down for, and flow states don't wait around for your fingers to catch up.
The frustration compounds over time
It's not just one lost thought. It's hundreds of lost thoughts per week, thousands per year. That brilliant connection you made in the shower but couldn't capture. The perfect email response that evaporated while you hunt-and-pecked. The article outline that was crystal clear for five seconds. The accumulated loss of these ideas is invisible but real.
You've tried typing faster — it doesn't help
Maybe you took a typing course. Maybe you practice. Maybe you're already at 60 or 70 words per minute. It doesn't matter. Your brain will always outpace your fingers. The gap shrinks but never closes. And focusing more on typing speed often makes the thought-loss problem worse, not better. The solution isn't faster fingers — it's a different input method entirely.
How It Works
Blurt matches your input speed to your thinking speed. Hold a button, say what you're thinking, release. Your words appear instantly, punctuated and formatted, ready to use.
Hold your hotkey
Press and hold your chosen shortcut. A small indicator confirms Blurt is listening. Your hands stay free, your eyes stay on your work, and your brain stays in flow.
Speak at the speed of thought
Talk naturally — 120 to 150 words per minute, the pace of conversation. No special commands, no pausing for punctuation. Just speak your ideas as they come to you, in the order they come.
Release and your text appears
Let go of the hotkey and your words appear at your cursor, properly punctuated and capitalized. The gap between thought and text shrinks from seconds to milliseconds. The idea that would have been lost is now captured.
Real Scenarios
Brain dumping ideas before they disappear
You're brainstorming and ideas are coming fast. With typing, you'd capture maybe one in four before they fade. With Blurt, you hold the button and stream everything out — half-formed thoughts, tangents, connections, questions. In 30 seconds of speaking, you capture what would have taken 2 minutes to type, and you lose nothing to the delay.
Writing first drafts at conversation speed
First drafts aren't about perfection — they're about getting ideas on paper before they evaporate. Blurt lets you write at the speed you'd explain something to a friend. A 500-word draft that would take 10-12 minutes to type takes under 4 minutes to speak. Your brain stays in creative mode instead of switching to typing mode.
Capturing meeting insights in real-time
During meetings, ideas and reactions come fast. You can't type notes without losing track of the conversation. Blurt lets you capture quick voice notes between discussion points — a 5-second recording becomes a complete sentence in your notes. You stay present in the meeting while still capturing your thoughts.
Responding to messages without breaking focus
Someone pings you. You know exactly what to say. With typing, that 30-word response might take 45 seconds and break your concentration on your primary task. With Blurt, you speak for 12 seconds, hit send, and return to work without losing your place.
Journaling and personal notes
Your internal monologue is rich and nuanced, but typing it out feels tedious. By the time you've typed how you feel, the feeling has changed. Voice-to-text captures thoughts in their original form — the exact words you're thinking, at the speed you're thinking them. Journaling becomes natural, not laborious.
Drafting emails and messages
Email paralysis often comes from the friction between knowing what to say and the effort of typing it. Blurt removes that friction. You speak your email as if you're talking to the person. A 200-word email that felt like a 10-minute task becomes a 90-second voice note that's ready to review and send.
Code comments and documentation
You know what your code does. Explaining it shouldn't be the hard part. But typing documentation is tedious, so comments stay sparse and READMEs stay outdated. Blurt lets you explain your code as naturally as you'd explain it to a colleague, and suddenly documentation becomes the easy part of coding.
macOS includes built-in dictation, but it's designed for occasional use, not as a primary input method. Here's how Blurt compares for fast thinkers who need to capture ideas quickly.
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed of activation | Instant — hold your hotkey and speak | Press twice, wait for tone, then speak |
| Transcription quality | AI-powered with automatic punctuation | Basic transcription, limited punctuation |
| Works while offline | Requires internet connection | Basic offline mode available |
| Natural speech handling | Handles conversational pace and filler words well | Best with slow, deliberate speech |
| Always available in any app | Yes, works everywhere text can be entered | Yes, system-wide |
| Price | $10/month or $99/year | Free (included with macOS) |
| Free tier | First 1,000 words free | Unlimited |
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