When you feel unwell, the last thing you want is a form. A voice health journal lets you say what is happening in a sentence, and have it written down properly: the symptom, the medicine, the time, the rating. Sayved does that, and keeps it in a dated record you can search or hand to a doctor.
What is a voice health journal?
It is a diary where speaking is the way in. In Sayved, one floating button sits over every screen. Long-press it and recording starts at once; tap it and choose voice if you prefer. You talk, and the sentence becomes entries.
You never choose a category. Sayved infers whether what you said is a symptom, a medicine, a mood, a night’s sleep, or exercise. One sentence can produce several entries, as in the example above, each with its own category and its own time. Capture is meant to take under ten seconds, and it is never held up by a question: if something is unclear, the entry is saved at lower confidence and you can tidy it later.
How do I dictate symptoms so they are useful later?
Say what you would tell a nurse. Specifics are what make a record worth reading months on. Some things people actually say:
- “Left knee swollen again, stairs hurt, maybe a four.”
- “Rash on both forearms, itchy, started after the new washing powder.”
- “Dizzy when I stood up from the sofa, lasted a minute.”
- “Took my blood pressure tablet at eight, forgot yesterday’s.”
- “Felt flat and tired all afternoon, mood about a three.”
You do not need clinical vocabulary. Your own words are kept with the entry, so the record stays in your language, and the structured fields (what, where, how much, when) are added on top. Where you give a time, it is used. “Started after lunch” and “yesterday evening” both resolve to a real time on the entry.
How does it turn words like “bad” into a number?
Sayved uses one 0 to 10 scale for every rating, and it means how much of the named thing there is. Pain 10 is the worst pain; mood 10 is the best mood; hunger 10 is starving. A high number is therefore not automatically good, and nothing in the app colours one as good or bad.
When you use a word instead of a number, Sayved converts it, and shows you the conversion. “Mood is good” might file as 7, and the entry shows “Read from ‘good’” beneath a slider, so you can drag it to what you really meant. When you state a number, as in “pain about a six”, the number wins over any adjective beside it. Rating changes you make are stored separately from the first reading.
Is a speech to text health log private?
The parts are worth separating. Your voice is transcribed on the phone, and the audio is never uploaded. Only the text is sent to an AI model, to be turned into structured entries, with no name, email or account attached. Nothing is kept on Sayved’s servers. Your journal is stored on your phone, and there is no account to create.
Health entries are treated as sensitive. When you export, Sayved asks about sensitive categories every single time, rather than remembering a yes. See the privacy page for the full wording, and the medical disclaimer for what the app is and is not.
What can I do with a voice-dictated health history?
First, read it. History lists every entry in order, and the symptom diary, medication log and mood journal pages show what each category holds. Second, ask it. In Ask you can write “when did I last take ibuprofen?” or “how many nights this month did I sleep under six hours?” and the answer comes from your own entries, with only the rows needed for the question sent. Sayved never volunteers a pattern. It answers when you ask.
Third, hand it over. The doctor visit report turns a stretch of your journal into a printable document for an appointment, and the ask your health history page covers how questions work.
What it will not do
A good journal is a record, not an opinion. Sayved does not tell you what a symptom means, does not suggest a diagnosis, and does not send alerts about your entries. It has no streaks, goals or green and red days, so a day with nothing logged is simply empty, not a failure. If you set optional reminders, they are in your words and silent if you have already logged.
Cost
Reading spoken entries is part of Sayved Pro: 14 days free, then $2.99 a month. If you stop, everything you logged stays readable, searchable and exportable, free, forever, and typed entries still work. See pricing.