9:41Every app you own
- “open Chrome”
- “Claude kholo”
- “open the app I make 3D models in”
Your Applications folders are scanned at launch. Nothing is hardcoded; install an app and it can be opened by name, nickname or description.
SayOpenMAC APP · EARLY ACCESS
Say it.
Open it.
Voice control for your Mac that acts while you are still talking.
Say one long sentence, like “open terminal, add a new tab and let me type”. SayOpen carries out each part the moment it is clear. It lives in the notch, understands English and Hinglish, and knows every app you have installed.
macOS · English + Hinglish · Speech stays on your Mac
Listening…
- 01Open Terminalapp · instant
- 02New tabin Terminal
- 03Voice typinghands off to Wispr Flow
01HOW IT WORKS
One sentence.
Several things done.
CLAUSE 1open terminal,CLAUSE 2add a new tabandCLAUSE 3let me type
01 · HEAR
On your Mac
Apple’s speech engine turns your voice into text on the Mac itself, a few words at a time.
02 · SPLIT
Into clauses
The sentence is cut at “and”, “then”, “phir”, “aur” and commas. Each part is handled on its own.
03 · DECIDE
~400ms
Jev, TypeSafe’s model, picks the action and fills in the app, site or text. Exact app names skip this step.
04 · ACT
~7ms to open
The action runs while you are still saying the next part.
The first app is already open while you say the second thing. If one part cannot be done, like opening an app you do not have, it is skipped with a reason and the rest of the sentence still runs.
02WHAT YOU CAN SAY
Talk like a person.
It works out the rest.
No command list to learn. Name the app, give it a nickname or describe it. SayOpen matches what you meant.
Tabs in any app
- “new tab in Chrome”
- “close this tab”
- “new Finder window”
Browsers, Terminal and Finder. The tab goes to the app you just named, not whichever was last in front.
Sites and searches
- “gmail”
- “search for jev pricing”
- “search YouTube for lo-fi”
One-word sites open as the site itself. Web and YouTube searches open straight to results.
Clicks for you
- “open Gmail and start drafting a new mail”
- “open Claude Code inside Claude”
Reads menus and buttons through Accessibility and clicks up to four steps. Delete, reset, quit and log out are never offered.
Find by what you say
- “open the Kaydence pack pdf”
Spotlight plus your Desktop, Documents and Downloads, matched word by word, so a misheard name still finds Cadence_Pack.pdf.
About 30 actions
- “volume to half”
- “dark mode on”
- “take a screenshot”
- “lock the screen”
- “press enter”
Notes, reminders, volume, media keys, brightness, dark mode, folders, screenshots, lock screen and Enter.
SayOpenopens your appsWispr Flowtypes your words
03VOICE TYPING
Two tools.
One voice.
Say “open Wispr Flow” to start dictating and “stop typing” when you are done. SayOpen starts it in the app you are working in.
While Wispr Flow has the microphone, SayOpen stops listening for commands, so a sentence you dictate is typed, never run. When dictation ends, it picks up again.
Wispr Flow is a separate product and needs its own install. SayOpen is not affiliated with it.
04IN THE NOTCH
Always there.
Never in the way.
A small black island at the top of your screen shows what SayOpen heard and what it did. A menu bar icon holds settings.
Idle
Mic levels and a status dot. Sits above full-screen apps.
Listening
Your words appear as you say them.
Safari · 9:41Opened
The app’s icon and the time it opened.
Hover
Your last five opens, plus Pause, Log and Settings.
Wakes when you ask
Asleep, it ignores everything except “Hey Mac”, “Hey Computer” or “OK Jev”. It stays awake until you say “bye Mac” or “go to sleep”.
One shortcut
Control + Option + Space turns listening on and off. It can open at login.
05PRIVACY
Your voice stays
on your Mac.
Speech is recognised on the Mac itself. The only thing that leaves it is the text of what you said, sent to TypeSafe’s Jev model to decide what you meant.
YOUR MAC
MicrophoneApple speech engineText of what you said
- The action runs here, on your Mac
- API key kept in your Keychain
- Open history kept in a file on your Mac
- Delete, reset, quit and log out are never clicked
API.TYPESAFE.AI
Jev reads the words and returns an action. No audio is sent.
06TESTED
Measured,
not guessed.
74 real phrasings, run through Jev and through a hand-written rules engine built before the test. Then 15 phrases Jev was never tuned on.
ALL 74 CASES63/74
Jev. The rules engine got 43.
15 UNSEEN PHRASES14/15
Jev. The rules engine got 7.
Latest run. Across runs Jev scores 63 to 68 of 74. A decision takes about 400ms with Jev and under 10ms with rules, which is why exact app names skip the model.
07GETTING STARTED
Five steps
to your first “open”.
SayOpen is in early access. Join the waitlist and we will email you when your copy is ready. You will need your own TypeSafe API key.
01
Drag SayOpen into Applications
A small universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
02
Allow it once in Privacy & Security
This early build is not notarised by Apple yet. Open it, then click Open Anyway next to SayOpen in System Settings. Only needed once.
03
Paste your TypeSafe key
Click the waveform in the menu bar and paste a key from console.typesafe.ai. It is stored in your Keychain. No key ships inside the app.
04
Allow the microphone and speech recognition
macOS asks the first time you start listening.
05
Say “Hey Mac”
Then say what you want. Control + Option + Space also turns listening on and off.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK
SayOpen, answered.
What is SayOpen?
SayOpen is a Mac app from Basement Protocol that lets you control your Mac by voice. You say what you want in one natural sentence and it opens apps, tabs, websites, notes and files as you speak.
Does SayOpen send my voice to the cloud?
No. Speech is recognised on your Mac by Apple’s speech engine. Only the text of what you said is sent, to TypeSafe’s Jev model at api.typesafe.ai, to decide which action you meant.
Does it understand Hindi?
It understands English and Hinglish commands such as “notes kholo”, and it splits sentences at “phir” and “aur” as well as “and”, “then” and commas.
Will it act on things I say to other people?
With the wake phrase on (the default), SayOpen ignores everything until you say “Hey Mac”, “Hey Computer” or “OK Jev”, and goes back to sleep on “bye Mac” or “go to sleep”. Every clause is also checked for whether you are talking to the computer: in testing it ignored all 8 pieces of background chatter.
How does it work with Wispr Flow?
Say “open Wispr Flow” to start dictating and “stop typing” to finish. While Wispr Flow is using the microphone, SayOpen ignores what you say, so your dictation is never read as a command.
What do I need to run it?
A Mac, microphone and speech recognition permission, and your own TypeSafe API key from console.typesafe.ai, pasted into SayOpen once from the menu bar.
What does it cost to run?
SayOpen uses your own TypeSafe key. When we measured it, a decision cost about $0.00009, so a spoken sentence costs roughly a tenth of a cent. Exact app names like “open Slack” open instantly without a model call.
Why does macOS warn me when I first open it?
The early-access build is not notarised by Apple yet. Open it once, then go to System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway next to SayOpen. You only need to do this once.
How do I get SayOpen?
SayOpen is in early access. Join the waitlist on this page and we will email you when your copy is ready.