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Blurt

Dictate into any Mac app

WHO USES ITMac users who would rather speak their mail and documents, and anyone cutting down on typing.

Install to use

Hold a key, talk, and polished text lands wherever you are typing on your Mac.

INSTALL
START IN 5 MINUTES ↓
The Blurt window: the instruction to tap Right Command to start and stop, an output style setting, and a space for recent dictations.
The Blurt window: the instruction to tap Right Command to start and stop, an output style setting, and a space for recent dictations.

TESIGN TAKE

The pipeline is simple enough to follow with your eyes, and it says on the first line that the audio goes to an external API rather than burying it.

Activity and discovery evidence
★ 68▲ 1 HN

68 stars · checked on GitHub · no 7-day star increase observed (GH Archive) (as of ) · 1 Show HN points observed

CROSS-SIGNAL GitHub + Show HN

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE
MIT
USAGE
Use, change and redistribute, commercially too. Keep the notice.
LANGUAGE
Swift
PLATFORM
macos
ACTIVITY
last commit within 24 h () · latest release v0.1.68 () · 41 releases
COMMUNITY
16 contributors · 7 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an organization
SOURCES
GitHub + Show HN
OPEN SOURCE
YES
FIRST SEEN
CATEGORY
AI · PRODUCTIVITY

A summary, not legal advice.

WHY IT MATTERS

Built-in Mac dictation behaves differently in every app and the result shows it. Blurt gives you one key anywhere, with no subscription and no account: it calls AssemblyAI with a key you own, and every line that sends the audio is readable.

BUILD FROM THIS

  • Native AppKit and SwiftUI — no Electron, no web views. The whole pipeline is one dependency-free Swift package: capture the microphone, one request, paste at the caret. No local models, no background daemon, no job queue. The app is signed and notarised.

WHO IT'S FOR

Mac users who would rather speak their mail and documents, and anyone cutting down on typing.

START IN 5 MINUTES

# Get the app from assemblyai.com/blurt and paste in an AssemblyAI key of your own.

CAVEATS

  • The audio goes to AssemblyAI. The app itself is free and MIT, but the API bills by usage and you must create the key yourself. macOS only.

RECEIPT

FIRST SEEN
AT SOURCE
KEPT
CREATED → FIRST SEEN
76d
WHEN FIRST SEEN
30 ★
SOURCES
GitHub + Show HN

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SIMILAR TOOLS

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The Blurt window: the instruction to tap Right Command to start and stop, an output style setting, and a space for recent dictations.
BlurtDictate into any Mac appTHIS ENTRY★ 68—MITpermissivemacos
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