SawScribe listens while you measure, keeps every piece and its layout straight, and reads it back step by step at the miter station. No typing. No pencil on your forearm.
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Coming soon“…front header is one twenty-eight and three-quarters, come down three and three-eighths on the left, in two and three-eighths…”
Wear a headset and keep working. SawScribe pulls the numbers out of what you say and holds them until you're at the saw.
Talk the way you'd talk to a helper. Lengths, heights, tapers, angled ends and notches.
“Left casing, eighty-four and a sixteenth, long point to long point.”
It confirms each one, asks a single question if something's missing, and groups pieces by job.
“Got it. Left casing, eighty-four and a sixteenth.”
Ask for a piece or the whole cut list. Say next, again or back. Interrupt it whenever you like.
“Walk me through the front header.”
The step you're on fills the screen. The next one waits underneath. Say “next”, or tap it with a gloved thumb.
Try it. The buttons on the phone work.
“Step one. Cut to one twenty-eight and three-quarters.”
Rattle off a list or describe one awkward piece. It sorts out which number goes where, and when it isn't sure, it asks.
“First board one twenty-three, second fifteen and a half, third sixty-four and three-eighths.”
“Back header is ninety-six long, eleven and a quarter on the left, eleven and an eighth on the right, two-inch notch seventeen and five-sixteenths from the left at the top.”
How deep is the notch?“Inch and a half.” → Got it. Back header, saved.
Miters, centers, diagonals, pitch, stairs. Every answer is worked in exact fractions and read to the sixteenth.
“Miter for a one thirty-five corner.”
“Center of ninety-six and five-eighths.”
“One twenty-eight and three-quarters plus two and three-quarters.”
“Diagonal of thirty-six by forty-eight.”
“Complement of thirty-seven.”
“Degrees for a six pitch.”
“Area of twelve by fourteen feet.”
“Deck's fifty-two high, seventy out to the pad.”
Wear a headset and leave the phone on your belt or the sawhorse. Nothing to type, nothing to unlock mid-cut.
It hears the small talk and lets it go. It speaks up when you call out a board or ask it something.
By default only a close, clear voice can cut it off. Wind, traffic and people across the room don't.
Nothing you tap is smaller than a thumb in a work glove. High-contrast numbers you can read at arm's length.
No decimals. When it rounds, it tells you which way.
Outline, taper, angled ends and notches, with the dimensions on it. Long thin boards are drawn taller so the details show.
Right now, iPhone. Early testers open SawScribe in Safari and add it to their home screen. App Store and Google Play versions are coming soon.
Listening needs a connection. Without one you can still open the app, see and edit your pieces, and have the phone read them back with its built-in voice.
On your phone. Export a backup from Settings before you switch phones or remove the app.
No. Every number is stored as an exact fraction, and every calculation runs in tested code. The voice side only decides which numbers you meant. It never does the arithmetic.
It stops listening. iPhone doesn't let home-screen apps use the mic in the background. While it's listening it keeps the screen awake, and you tap Start again when you're back.
Not yet. Anyone talking close to the mic can interrupt it or get captured. A headset helps a lot.
SawScribe is in early testing with working carpenters. Tell us what you install and we'll get you set up.
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