SayCopyPaste is Bravely Studios LLC’s dictation app for turning speech into clipboard text. It has Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad, and Android clients. An active trial or paid plan enables use, with monthly, annual, and lifetime purchase options.
Recording from a key or shortcut
Dictation begins with live speech from the microphone. The controls vary across platforms:
- Mac: hold Globe or Fn while speaking, then release it to finish.
- Windows: A dictation key triggers recording from the desktop.
- iPhone and iPad: use the dictation key; release or tap again to stop. iPhone also supports Action Button and Back Tap shortcuts.
- Android: start from a Quick Settings tile or home-screen widget, speak, and tap again to finish.
Android provides a recording notification with a Stop button. On iPhone, a Dynamic Island or Lock Screen activity shows Listening, Transcribing, and Copied states. Its Stop control ends the recording without requiring a return to the app.
Text on the clipboard
After transcription, the app copies the words to the operating system’s clipboard. Users open the destination app and paste the text into a message, document, note, or browser field. SayCopyPaste leaves that final paste action to the user rather than inserting text automatically.
Desktop clients send speech to a hosted transcription service. This workflow captures dictation directly from the microphone; it does not import audio or video files for transcription.
Personal spellings and languages
Vocabulary learning remembers corrections to names, jargon, and acronyms. Correcting a word teaches the app the spelling to use in future transcripts.
Language detection follows the speech itself. The supported languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Japanese.
Longer passages and earlier words
Desktop append controls join separate spoken pieces into one passage. Holding Command on a Mac, or Control on Windows and Linux, while starting another dictation adds its words to the previous clipboard text. Recent chains retrieves an earlier passage when another dictation interrupts that sequence.
History keeps earlier dictations available for reuse. Search finds matching entries, while starring an entry adds it to Favorites. An earlier transcript can return to the clipboard for another paste.
Accounts, sync, and interrupted recordings
Sign-in accepts Apple, Google, or email accounts. Dictation sync starts only after the user enables it. It shares transcript text across devices and makes history available in a browser. Users can keep sync off instead.
If a mobile recording loses its connection, the app queues it and transcribes it after connectivity returns. Android also offers an optional mode that transcribes on the device.
