Writing Blogs Without Typing: Using AI Voice to Get Content Done

I’m sitting in my car right now waiting to pick up my daughter from a cheer tryout. This is usually dead time. I end up in the normal scroll-hole and end up jumping from various social media platforms, wasting time and accomplishing nothing.

In contrast, I still have a giant list of things I would like to do. But they always required my home computer.

But not today.

I don’t need my laptop. Just my phone.

The way we create content is changing, and if you’re still waiting for the perfect time to sit down and write something, you’re probably not going to do it.

Not because you don’t have ideas. But because you don’t have the time or the setup you think you need.

Your car was never the ideal spot to write a blog... but maybe nowadays it is.

I Still Believe You Should Write Your Own Stuff

I’ve said this a lot, and I’m not backing off it just because AI exists now.

You should still be writing your own blogs.

Your thoughts. Your opinions. Your perspective.

That’s the value.

AI can put together sentences. It can structure a solid outline. It can even make something sound polished. But it’s pulling from what already exists. It will never create an original thought.

If your goal is to just have "a blog," sure, AI can do that. It will sound and look like everything else that exists. Some might even call it "slop".

But if your goal is to build trust and authority, a quick prompt on ChatGPT won’t do it for you. We need to dig into memory and experiences to really extract and bring new content to the internet.

Otherwise, you’re just publishing a slightly remixed version of everything else that’s already out there.

The Real Problem Isn’t Ideas - It’s Time

Here’s what I’ve noticed, especially running an agency.

Nobody is short on opinions.

Everyone has thoughts. Sit down and talk with a business owner and ask them about their business. Not only can they give you a TED Talk about each individual service they provide, they give you their unique perspective. They give you actual stories (and wisdom) on situations they’ve handled over the years. This is valuable information.

Not just valuable from a website perspective, but super helpful for clients. When you hear a business owner talking about an exact situation, you understand they are really able to talk the talk.

Often, our job as an agency is to gather this data from our clients and get it onto the internet. We’ve always recommended these individuals to pull out a laptop and type up their thoughts. We can make it pretty and make it work for the internet, but we’ve always wanted their thoughts and opinions.

But the problem was always getting it out of their head and onto a digital document.

Because that requires sitting down, focusing, typing, editing... all the stuff that sounds easy until your day fills up. And believe me, their days fill up.

And then blogging becomes one of those "I’ll get to it when I have time" things.

Which usually means never.

...and I fell right into this exact category. The guy who wrote over 80+ blogs in a year was struggling to hammer out one per quarter.

So I Started Talking Instead

Most days, I’m in the car at some point.

Dropping kids off. Picking them up. Waiting in a parking lot. Driving between things.

It’s not a ton of time, but it’s consistent. 15 minutes here. 20 minutes there.

And instead of letting that time disappear, I started using it. It actually reminded me of the year 2019 when I found myself sitting in a car for an hour a day (more kid related pickups). Back then, I pulled out my notepad app and wrote blogs. Well, these days I’m actively driving and writing a blog while driving doesn’t sound like the smartest of ideas.

So instead, I open up ChatGPT voice and just start talking through whatever’s on my mind.

No script. No pressure. No worrying about how it sounds.

It’s basically a one-man podcast that no one is going to listen to.

I find a general topic that usually has me aggravated or something that has me super enthused. These topics come to me from time to time, especially when I’m listening to a marketing podcast. Someone will say something that I have an opinion on and instead of just talking back to the podcast, I figure I will make one of my own.

And that’s kind of the beauty of it. AI technology has made it that you can have a one-way conversation and transcribe that conversation into something workable. Even if it’s a bunch of scattered thoughts, we can take that information and build it into a structure once we get back to a computer.

And because you’re not trying to "write," you actually say things the way you’d normally say them. This is your real voice, real examples, and a great way to get your opinions in a written form.

You can go back, look at the transcription, clean it up, organize it a bit, and suddenly... there’s a blog there.

That’s what this is.

Blogging Didn’t Die - It Just Got Louder

There’s this idea floating around that blogging isn’t worth it anymore because AI can crank out content all day.

I think it’s the opposite.

There’s more content than ever, which means it’s harder to stand out, which means your voice matters more.

Search engines are still scanning your site. AI tools are still pulling from your content. People are still trying to figure out who knows what they’re talking about.

If you stop publishing, you slowly disappear from that conversation.

And in industries like digital marketing, that happens fast. If the last time you talked about your craft was before AI, before search changes, before everything that’s happening right now, you don’t look like an expert anymore.

You look like you stopped paying attention. You won’t be showing up on search engines if it looks like you totally phoned it in.

If there is a time to get your voice out, it’s now. People (and bots) will really start promoting the real voices in the room. Just because you didn’t type it on a computer doesn’t mean it doesn’t count.

There’s Really No Excuse Anymore

For years, people had a legitimate excuse.

"I’m not a good writer."

Fair.

But now?

If you can talk, you can blog.

That’s not a motivational quote. That’s literally how this works now. You talk into your phone. AI transcribes it. You clean it up. You publish it.

You can’t even really blame the platform anymore. Nearly all of your websites will have some content management system to easily let you convert your written word into a blog. In our workflow, we drag our completed Word doc into a custom GPT and it will even format it for WordPress, full with the current headings, links, and example meta title and descriptions.

We could literally work this up for a client once and they have the tools to make blogs for the next year (until technology changes a bit more).

But that’s the workflow. Talk into your phone. Tell Chat, Claude, or Gemini to make it into a first draft of a blog. Go in there and edit your words.

You don’t need to be perfect. You don’t need to sound like a professional writer. You just need to sound like yourself.

And honestly, that’s better anyway.

This Blog Is the Example

This isn’t me explaining a system I tested once.

This is me doing it.

I didn’t sit down this month and say, "Alright, time to write another blog." I was busy. Like everyone else. I was looking at my calendar and I just wasn’t sure how I was going to hit my goal for the month. And that’s when I realized I had the tool I needed mounted right in my car.

So instead of waiting, I just started talking.

Now I’ve got something I can publish, something that reflects how I actually think, and something that helps people understand how to approach this.

And I didn’t need a keyboard to do it.