For students · more than dictation

Stuck on a word?
Just ask, out loud.

Your study assistant — one keypress away, in every app.Take notes by talking. Select anything you don't understand and ask about it out loud — the answer appears beside your work, untouched. Turn a half-formed thought into a sharp prompt. Write the essay in whatever language you think in.

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macOS 13+ ·Free 2,000 words/week·Audio never stored
Dictate Listening…
The friction

Your study day, on a keyboard.

The thinking is the hard part. Typing it up, looking things up, switching tabs to ask a chatbot — that's just tax on your attention. It adds up across a whole semester.

Notes can't keep up

The lecturer is three slides ahead before you finish a single sentence.

One unfamiliar term

A new tab, a quick search — and the thread of the paper is gone.

Copy-paste to a chatbot

Switch app, paste, re-explain the context, then switch all the way back.

Blank-page essays

You can say the whole argument out loud — yet the cursor just keeps blinking.

You think in two languages

Other tools "fix" your 中英 mix into one — and your real voice disappears.

Hours, every week

Not spent learning — spent typing, formatting, and juggling a wall of tabs.

Why it clicks

Talk your way through school.

5×FASTER

Speaking runs near 220 wpm; typing crawls at ~45. Get the idea down at the speed you think it.

Sounds like you

Faithful cleanup removes the "um"s and false starts — never your words, your meaning, or your language mix.

Works in every app

Notion, Google Docs, your PDF reader, the browser, Anki — text lands right at your cursor, wherever you study.

An assistant, not a keyboard

Press Ask and get a real answer — on the spot, beside your work, without leaving the page you're reading.

A day, scene by scene

One keypress, six moments.

Scroll through a study session — watch the right key step in at each turn.

Lecture notes · Notion
Fin 203 — 投資組合 portfolio theory
• 報酬 跟 風險 是 inversely related 對吧 • 重點 是 diversification
✓ 中英 preserved · never translated
recording…
paper.pdf — page 6
We perform an ablation study to isolate the contribution of each module.
AskANSWER · doc untouched
Removing one part of a model to measure that part's effect on the results.
CopyInsertClose
en.wikipedia.org
Ask"explain Bayes' theorem simply"
It updates a belief with new evidence: posterior ∝ likelihood × prior. New data nudges your estimate toward what it supports.
CopyInsertClose
spoken → clean prompt
YOU SAID"umm i need it to like compare the two methods in my papers but properly with structure"
↓
READY TO PASTE
Compare the methodology of Paper A and Paper B across data sources, sample size, and key limitations. Present it as a table.
essay-draft.docx
YOU SAIDok so basically my main point is that the policy didn't really work um because the data kinda shows it backfired you know
POLISHED
My central argument is that the policy was ineffective — and the data shows it ultimately backfired.
✓ Messy speech → clean academic prose
language practice
DICTATE — faithful我今天 review 了 chapter three，然后做了 notes。
TRANSLATE — one step
I reviewed chapter three today and then took notes.
Practice both ways — your choice of key.
Dictate

In the lecture

Mutter your notes as fast as the lecturer talks — switching between 中文 and English the way you actually think. Fillers drop away; your exact words and language mix stay, never translated.

Ask · selection

Reading a paper

Highlight the term you don't get, press Ask, and say "what does this mean?" The answer appears beside your work — your document is never touched.

Ask · anything

Stuck anywhere

On any page or PDF, press Ask and just say your question. A clear, structured answer streams into a floating panel — Copy, Insert, or Close, then back to studying.

Ask

Fuzzy thought → sharp prompt

Mumble what you need — half-formed, with "um"s and all. Get back a clean, structured prompt that's ready to paste into ChatGPT or Claude.

Polish

Write the essay

Talk the argument through, "um"s and false starts and all. Polish turns messy speech into clean academic prose — your claims and facts kept exactly, never invented.

Translate

Study a language

Dictate keeps your mixed input faithful; Translate turns it into clean target-language text in one step. Practice both ways, whenever it helps.

Only Saytomo

Built for how you actually study.

The details other voice tools miss — and the ones that matter most to a bilingual student.

中
Code-switch fidelity

Say "我今天 review 了 chapter three" and it stays exactly that — 中英不被翻. Borrowed words keep their language; your real voice survives the cleanup.

The answer panel

Read an explanation without leaving your document. And replacing a selection is sentinel-safe — Saytomo never destroys your text on a guess; if it's unsure, it just answers.

Personal dictionary

Add your course terms, professor names, and lab acronyms once. Saytomo spells them right every time — the things generic models always mangle.

Private by default

Audio is processed in the moment and never stored. Your notes and essays are never used to train a model. Your work stays yours.

Works where you study

Every app you already have open.

…and any other Mac app with a text field. macOS 13+.

The numbers

Speaking beats typing.

0

words/min, spoken

0

words/min, typed

~0

hours/week back*

* Estimate, based on the spoken-vs-typed gap over a typical student writing load. Your mileage will vary.

220 wpm spoken against ~45 typed — that gap is the hours you get back.

Student questions

The short answers.

Does it work in more than English?
Yes — 40+ languages, with native support for code-switching. You can speak a sentence that mixes English and Chinese (or another language) and Saytomo keeps each word in the language you said it. It also handles Simplified ⇄ Traditional Chinese.
Will it work in my PDF reader and Notion?
Saytomo types at your cursor in essentially any Mac app with a text field — Notion, Google Docs, Word, GoodNotes, Overleaf, the browser, and more. For reading, the Ask key works on text you select inside a PDF and shows the answer in a floating panel beside it, so your document is never altered.
Will it just translate my 中英 notes into one language?
No — that's the whole point. The default Dictate path is faithful: your 中英 mix is preserved exactly, never "smoothed" into one language. Translation only happens when you deliberately press the Translate key. Your notes stay in your voice unless you ask otherwise.
What happens to my notes and audio?
Audio is processed in the moment and never stored. Transcripts aren't retained on our servers, and your data is never used to train models. The selected text you send with an Ask is used only for that one request. The full subprocessor list is on the privacy page.
Is it free for students?
There's a free plan for everyone — 2,000 words a week on a rolling 7-day window, no credit card, free forever. If you want no weekly limit and unlimited assistant keys, Pro is $13/month (or $11/month billed annually). See full details on the pricing page.

Stop typing your way through school.
Start asking.

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