HeySpeak alternative
Sayso vs. HeySpeak: one voice note or a full Ask.
HeySpeak replaces a single discovery call with one Magic Link: record a short voice note, or book a meeting instead. Sayso replaces a whole intake form: several questions, grouped into sections, answered by talking through one private link. Which one fits depends on whether you are collecting one answer or a set of them.
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Last checked September 22, 2026. Pricing and features change; confirm current details on HeySpeak’s own site before you decide.
| Compared on | HeySpeak | Sayso |
|---|---|---|
| How you get an answer | Send a Magic Link. The recipient records one voice note, up to 60 seconds, or books a meeting instead. No account needed. | Send a private link per recipient. They answer each question in an Ask by talking, one at a time, in a fixed order. |
| What comes back | An automatic transcript and an AI-written summary with every voice note. | The recording itself, kept on every plan. The $9-a-month plan adds a transcript and a written summary. |
| Shape of what you send | One link built around a single voice note or a booked call, not a multi-question form. | An Ask made of several questions grouped into sections, all answered through the same link. |
| Booking a call instead | Recipients can choose to book a meeting instead of recording. | No scheduling option. Every Ask is asynchronous only. |
| Where the recording is processed | Audio stored on Cloudflare R2, hosting on Vercel in Frankfurt, database and auth on Supabase in Zurich, transcription through Mistral AI in France: an EU-only stack, per its own site. | Recordings go to Supabase Storage; transcription runs through OpenAI’s transcription model on the paid plan. |
How you get an answer
HeySpeak
Send a Magic Link. The recipient records one voice note, up to 60 seconds, or books a meeting instead. No account needed.
Sayso
Send a private link per recipient. They answer each question in an Ask by talking, one at a time, in a fixed order.
What comes back
HeySpeak
An automatic transcript and an AI-written summary with every voice note.
Sayso
The recording itself, kept on every plan. The $9-a-month plan adds a transcript and a written summary.
Shape of what you send
HeySpeak
One link built around a single voice note or a booked call, not a multi-question form.
Sayso
An Ask made of several questions grouped into sections, all answered through the same link.
Booking a call instead
HeySpeak
Recipients can choose to book a meeting instead of recording.
Sayso
No scheduling option. Every Ask is asynchronous only.
Where the recording is processed
HeySpeak
Audio stored on Cloudflare R2, hosting on Vercel in Frankfurt, database and auth on Supabase in Zurich, transcription through Mistral AI in France: an EU-only stack, per its own site.
Sayso
Recordings go to Supabase Storage; transcription runs through OpenAI’s transcription model on the paid plan.
HeySpeak is built around a single conversation: one Magic Link, one voice note or a booked call, aimed at founders, consultants, sales teams and product managers who want a discovery call without scheduling one. It runs its own comparison pages against Typeform, Calendly, Loom and email surveys, and keeps its processing inside the EU. Sayso is built around a set of questions instead of one: an Ask groups them into sections, sends once per recipient, and has no logic branching or call-booking layered on top.
Questions people ask before switching
No. Sayso has no scheduling built in; it is asynchronous only. Every Ask is answered by talking, on the recipient’s own time.
Not from what we could confirm. A Magic Link centers on a single voice note, with a booked call as the alternative. Sayso is built the other way: an Ask groups multiple questions into sections, and everyone who gets the link answers each one in order.
Nothing specific. HeySpeak did not have plan pricing published on the pages we could check when we researched this comparison. Confirm current plans directly on heyspeak.io.
Yes. Voice is the default because people say more out loud, but every question also takes a typed or pasted answer.
Keep reading
- Sayso vs. SayifyVoice-first intake compared with an AI case-routing tool.
- Sayso vs. VoiceformOne Ask, not a branching research platform.
- Sayso vs. TypeformA voice-first alternative to typing into fields.
- How Sayso worksRecord, save, transcribe, write up: the four steps.
- The psychology of voice vs. text feedbackWhy people say more out loud.