8:15Lecture notes
“Key point on regression: the coefficient is the change in the dependent variable when the independent one goes up by one. Check the assumptions on page 42.”
Dictation that understands Slovenian, and English on Mac. Press a shortcut, say what you mean, and the text appears in Word, Gmail or Teams. With full stops and commas.
Eight things. In one minute.
What Sayfare does and what’s coming. The sound button is just below the film.
One shortcut. Every app.
Pick where you’re writing. Say it your way, Sayfare writes it with punctuation.
Gmail, new email
ToProf. Novak
SubjectSeminar paper defence
Good morning, Professor Novak. Could we move my seminar paper defence to Thursday? I’m at a competition in Ljubljana on Wednesday. Thank you and best regards, Maja
Messenger, Ana
Coffee tomorrow after the lecture?
Yes, great! See you at ten by the Prešeren statue.
VS Code, profile.js
12// Check that the user is logged in before loading the profile.
13if (!user) return redirect("/login");
14const profile = await loadProfile(user.id);
One day. Five texts. No typing.
This is what a student’s Tuesday could look like. You say every text below instead of typing it.
8:15
11:30Email to a professor
“Good morning, Professor Novak. Could we move my seminar paper defence to Thursday? I’m at a competition in Ljubljana on Wednesday. Thank you and best regards, Maja”
14:00Group project on Messenger
“I’ll do the data analysis, Ana writes the intro, Žan makes the slides. Let’s meet on Thursday at five!”
19:30Applying for a student job
“I’m a third-year economics student with experience waiting tables. I’m available at weekends and over the summer.”
23:10A seminar paper with the command “new paragraph”
“In the introduction I set out the research question: does dictation cut the time it takes to write a draft?
First I describe the method.”
2,140
words in a day like this, seminar paper included. About 54 minutes typing, 14 dictating. That leaves about 40 minutes for coffee.
Download SayfarePress, talk, press. That’s it.
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Press the shortcut
⌥ + Space on Mac, Alt + Space on Windows. It works in every app.
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Talk like you would to a friend
A red light shows at the top of the screen on Mac and along the bottom edge on Windows. On Windows you can also hold the shortcut and let go when you’re done.
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Press it again
The text goes in where your cursor is. Full stops, commas and capitals are already there.
73 seconds of speech. 1.8 seconds of waiting.
Sayfare doesn’t wait for you to finish. It cuts your speech at the pauses and transcribes and edits each piece while you’re still talking. When you press again, only the last piece is left. Measured on a Mac with an M5. When the Claude proofreader is slow to respond, you wait a few seconds longer.
- You talk: recorded at 16 kHz, split at the pauses.
- Already transcribed and edited, as you go.
From voice to text. Transcription runs on your computer.
Listens
Recorded at 16 kHz. With AirPods, the Mac picks the built-in microphone itself so your music doesn’t stutter.
Transcribes locally
The Whisper large-v3-turbo model runs on your computer and transcribes piece by piece while you’re still talking.
The proofreader edits
It adds punctuation, removes filler words, fixes what was misheard and follows your dictionary. The proofreader is Claude through your Claude Code, and on Windows also with your own Claude API key. Without it you get a clean transcript.
Inserts
The text goes where your cursor is, in any app. Your clipboard stays as it was.
For everyone who can say it faster than they can type it.
Students
Lecture notes, seminar papers and emails to professors. Get the thought down while you have it.
Offices
Replies, minutes and reports, straight into Outlook, Word or Teams.
When typing wears you out
Dyslexia, a sore wrist or a long day. Saying it is easier than hunting for letters.
How many hours does it give back?
You type about 40 words a minute and speak about 150.
4 h 35 min
less typing
Typing 6 h 15 min, dictating 1 h 40 min. The thinking and the edits are still yours.
It does more than you’d expect. Some of it is still on its way.
Understands Slovenian
»Midva sva bila v Novem mestu.«
It handles the dual and the grammatical cases. Add any place or name it misses to your dictionary. On Mac it also takes dictation in English.
Your dictionary
Doc. dr. Kos, ANOVA or FRI: add them once and Sayfare expects them from then on. Anything it keeps mishearing, it replaces by your rule.
Learns from your fixes
On Mac you fix a dictation in the history and Sayfare remembers the fix for the proofreader. Learning from fixes in other apps comes in the next version.
Hold to talk
On Windows: hold, talk, let go. A short press starts and stops. Coming to Mac in the next version.
Style per app
In the next Mac version: in Gmail the greeting and sign-off each get their own line. In Messenger there’s no full stop at the end, and in code, names are written the way code writes them. Style changes only the format, never your words.
Edit by voice
In the next Mac version: select some text and say, for example: “Cut it to one sentence.”
Translation
In the next Mac version: you speak Slovenian and it pastes in the language you choose.
Your voice never leaves your computer.
Transcription runs locally, with no account and no internet once the model is downloaded. The Claude proofreader works in the cloud and only gets the text, never your voice.
On your disk
On Mac, recordings and dictated text are saved to a folder on your computer and deleted after two hours; you can change the time. The fixes it learns from and the activity log stay until you delete them. On Windows, recordings aren’t saved. Dictated text is removed from the history the first time Sayfare starts after two hours. It stays in the activity log until the log grows past 1 MB.
No account
No Sayfare sign-in, no tracking, no ads. You only need an account for the Claude proofreader or ElevenLabs transcription.
What goes to the cloud
Your voice only if you enter your own ElevenLabs key. Text goes to the Claude proofreader if you have Claude Code, and on Windows also with a Claude API key. You can turn the proofreader off.
Sayfare was made by one person. With Claude.
Hi, I’m Vid Zadnikar. I’m 24 and from Ljubljana. I trained as a mechatronics engineer, and by day I work at a stage and set technology company. When I get home, I open my laptop and work on Sayfare. When I don’t, I’m at the gym or playing badminton.
My thoughts run faster than I type. On YouTube I saw how well dictation works in English. In Slovenian, nothing wrote down what I actually said. Why should I have to express myself in English when Slovenian comes easier?
I can’t write code beyond a few basics. So I made Sayfare together with Claude: I said what I wanted and how it should work, and Claude wrote the code. Now I use it to dictate everything I write for AI. It saves me a huge amount of time and even more willpower.
There’s no team, it’s just me. I want to show how much one person with a good tool can do today. That’s why your opinion means a lot to me: try Sayfare and tell me what’s missing, what’s unnecessary and what you’d add. Write to me at wayfarestudio1@gmail.com.
Vid Zadnikar
Download. Free during the beta.
Mac
Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later. The download is 4 MB; the transcription model (1.6 GB) downloads on first launch. Dictation in Slovenian or English; the app’s menus are in Slovenian for now.
Download for MacInstalling on Mac
- Open the downloaded file and drag Sayfare into the Applications folder.
- Open the app. The first time, your Mac stops it because it isn’t notarised by Apple yet. In System Settings → Privacy & Security, click “Open Anyway” and confirm.
- Allow the microphone and Accessibility. Without Accessibility, the text stays on the clipboard and you paste it with ⌘V.
- If your Mac says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Sayfare.app
Windows
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. The download is 64 MB; the transcription model (0.6 GB) downloads on first launch. The shortcut is Alt + Space. Transcription uses a graphics card with Vulkan support if your computer has one; on the processor alone it can be much slower. The Windows version is new and still being tested, and for now it only transcribes Slovenian, so write to me if something doesn’t work.
Download for WindowsInstalling on Windows
- Open the downloaded installer.
- Because it isn’t signed yet, Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”. Click “More info” and then “Run anyway”.
- Sayfare installs without admin rights and downloads the transcription model on first launch.
- Then press Alt + Space in any app.
Be one of the first 30.
I’m looking for students who’ll use Sayfare every day for two weeks and tell me what’s missing. You get new features first and help decide what I build next. Mac and Windows only for now. Android and iPhone come later.
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Questions and answers.
Does it work offline?
Transcription does. Once the model downloads on first launch, it transcribes with no connection, even in a reading room without Wi-Fi. The Claude proofreader needs the internet; without it you get a clean transcript.
Does it understand dialects?
It understands everyday speech, but makes more mistakes with a strong dialect. Add words you say often to your dictionary. On Mac it also remembers the fixes you make in the history.
Can my professor tell I dictated it?
No. Sayfare adds no marker. The text goes in all at once, as if you pasted it. What you write and how you use it is your responsibility.
Where do my recordings go?
Nowhere, unless you choose ElevenLabs for transcription. On Mac they stay on your computer and are deleted after two hours; you can change the time. On Windows, recordings aren’t saved.
Which apps does it work in?
Any app you can paste text into, such as Word, Google Docs, Gmail, Outlook, Teams, Messenger, Notion, VS Code and your browser. On Mac you allow Accessibility for this.
What computer do I need?
A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later, or a PC with 64-bit Windows 10 or 11. On Windows, fast transcription needs a graphics card with Vulkan support; on the processor alone it can be much slower. The transcription model takes 1.6 GB on Mac and 0.6 GB on Windows.
Does it work in English?
On Mac, yes: choose English or Automatic as the dictation language. The app’s menus are in Slovenian for now. The Windows version only transcribes Slovenian so far.
How much does it cost?
Nothing during the beta, with every feature. The Claude proofreader and ElevenLabs transcription are optional. If you use them, you pay their providers. We’ll decide on a price together with the beta users.