Voice to Text for Hand Tremor
Typing with a hand tremor means watching your fingers hit the wrong keys over and over. The backspace key becomes your most-used button. Words that should take seconds take minutes. Blurt removes the accuracy problem entirely. Instead of fighting your hands to hit the right keys, you speak. Hold a button, say what you need to write, release. Your words appear exactly as you intended them, wherever your cursor is. No missed keys. No typos from shaky fingers. No frustration. Your voice is steady even when your hands aren't, and that's all Blurt needs to produce accurate text.
The Typing Problem
Every word becomes a battle against your own hands
You know what you want to type. The words are clear in your mind. But between your brain and the screen, your tremor intervenes. Your finger aims for the 'e' and hits 'r'. You reach for the space bar and clip the 'n' on the way. A simple sentence becomes a minefield of corrections. You spend more time fixing mistakes than writing, and the constant error-correction is exhausting in a way that people with steady hands don't understand.
The frustration compounds with every typo
It's not just the time you lose. It's the mounting frustration. You type a word, delete half of it, retype it, delete again. Three attempts to write 'meeting'. Four tries at 'available'. Your jaw tightens. You start typing slower, more deliberately, but that doesn't really help either. The tremor doesn't care how careful you are. And the anger at your own hands makes the tremor worse, which makes the typing worse, which makes everything worse.
People notice your typos and make assumptions
You send an email with a couple of mistakes you missed. A Slack message goes out before you caught the error. And you wonder what people think. Do they assume you're careless? That you don't proofread? That you're not detail-oriented? You know the truth: you probably proofread more than anyone because you have to. But the typos still slip through, and you can't explain your tremor in every email signature.
Some days are worse than others, but deadlines don't adjust
Tremors fluctuate. Stress makes them worse. Fatigue makes them worse. That important presentation you're anxious about? Your hands shake more on exactly the days you need them steady. You can't schedule your work around your good hand days. The deadline is Friday whether your tremor is mild or pronounced. So you push through, accepting that today's work will take twice as long and come with twice the frustration.
Autocorrect creates new problems while solving old ones
You've tried leaning on autocorrect, but it's not built for tremor-induced typos. It fixes common misspellings, not the random letter substitutions your shaky fingers create. Sometimes it 'corrects' your typos into entirely different words, and now you're saying something you didn't mean. You catch some of these before sending. You don't catch all of them.
How It Works
Blurt works everywhere on macOS. Any app where you can place a cursor, you can use voice instead of typing. Email, documents, Slack, anywhere.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening. No precision required.
Speak naturally
Say what you want to write. Your voice is steady. Blurt handles punctuation and formatting automatically.
Release and done
Accurate text appears at your cursor. No typos to fix. No backspace key needed.
Real Scenarios
Writing emails without the typo anxiety
You have a dozen emails to send. Normally, each one involves typing, deleting, retyping, proofreading, finding more mistakes, fixing them, and hoping you caught everything. With Blurt, you click into the reply, hold your hotkey, and speak. 'Hi Sarah, thanks for the update on the Henderson project. The timeline looks good to me. Let me know if you need anything from my end before the Thursday meeting.' Release. The words appear exactly as you said them. Send. Next email. No corrections needed.
Participating in fast-paced chat conversations
Slack moves fast. By the time you've fought your tremor through a response, the conversation has moved on. With Blurt, you keep up. Hold the hotkey, say your piece, release. Your message appears and sends while the discussion is still relevant. You're no longer the person who responds to things five messages later.
Getting through documents without exhaustion
Long documents are the worst. The sustained effort of fighting your tremor for an hour leaves you mentally drained before you're halfway done. Blurt turns a frustrating slog into something almost easy. Speak your paragraphs. Watch them appear accurately. Move on. You finish the document with energy left over.
Taking notes when accuracy matters
Meeting notes need to be readable later. Names, dates, action items. Getting these wrong defeats the purpose of taking notes at all. When you speak them into Blurt, they come out right. 'Action item: follow up with Martinez by December fifteenth about the budget revision.' No garbled letters. No ambiguous typos you'll puzzle over next week.
Writing on high-tremor days
Some days your hands cooperate reasonably well. Other days, holding a coffee cup is a challenge. On those difficult days, Blurt becomes essential. Your voice doesn't tremor. Your words come out clean regardless of what your hands are doing. The bad hand days stop being bad writing days.
Professional communication that reflects your actual competence
You're good at your job. You're articulate and thoughtful. Your emails should reflect that. When you speak your messages into Blurt, they do. Clean, professional text that shows your actual capability, not the random typos your tremor produces. Your communication finally matches your competence.
Quick replies that are actually quick
Someone asks 'Can you meet at 3?' It should take five seconds to respond. With a tremor, it takes thirty seconds of careful typing and checking. With Blurt, it takes five seconds again. Hold, 'Three works for me, see you then', release. Done. Quick replies become quick again.
Why people with hand tremors choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey hold, no precise clicking needed | Requires clicking a small microphone icon |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay, sometimes longer |
| Reliability | Consistent transcription accuracy | Frequently fails silently or mishears |
| Tremor-friendly design | Hold any key, no precision required | UI assumes steady mouse control |
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