Dictation for managers who spend the day answering people
A manager's real job is often hidden inside fifty emails, a hundred chat messages and a calendar full of meetings that each produce follow-ups. Stenograph lets you answer by voice wherever the message is, in the right tone for each app, and turns your meetings into summaries with decisions and action items you can send.
Listening
A typical day for a manager using Stenograph
At 7:45 on the train you open your inbox on the phone. With the Stenograph keyboard you answer eight emails by speaking, each with a greeting and a sign-off, while the person next to you is still scrolling.
At 9:00 you sit down at your desk. A team member asks in Slack whether the launch date holds. You press the hotkey and say two sentences. The reply lands concise and casual, without a "Dear" in sight.
At 11:00 you run a planning meeting in a conference room and record it on your laptop. When it ends, Stenograph gives you a transcript with speaker labels, a short summary, the decisions taken and a list of action items with owners.
At 3:00 you dictate the weekly update to leadership in Notion. You talk it through and the page comes back structured with headings and bullets. You say "more formal" before sharing it.
At 6:00 the inbox is at zero, and you typed almost nothing.
Clearing the inbox and answering messages by voice
A spoken reply takes far less time than a typed one, and for a manager that difference adds up across dozens of replies. Stenograph inserts text at the cursor in any app, so you reply where the message is: an email client, a team chat, a CRM, a project tracker. Writing styles adjust the tone per app, formal in Outlook and short in Slack, as described on the dictation writing styles page. Names of colleagues, clients and products stay spelled correctly once they are in your dictionary.
- Replies with greeting and sign-off in email
- Short, natural answers in chat
- Comments in project tools and CRM fields
- Voice edits such as "make it shorter" before you send
Meeting action items without a note taker
Stenograph records meetings on your device, in person or from a call playing on your computer. No bot joins your call. The transcript has speaker labels and timestamps, and the summary lists the decisions and action items with the person responsible when it was said. You can paste the follow-up straight into email or your task tracker. The ai meeting note taker page covers the meeting mode in detail, and the ai meeting notes page shows how minutes and follow-ups are written.
Updates, plans and reviews dictated in one pass
Longer writing gets easier too. Weekly updates, performance review notes, project briefs and hiring feedback can be dictated as you would explain them to a colleague, and Stenograph builds the paragraphs, headings and lists. The ai text formatting dictation page shows a before and after example.
Which plan fits a manager or a leadership team
| Situation | Plan |
|---|---|
| Manager who mainly dictates email and messages | Solo, 24 USD per month billed yearly, 1,500 dictation minutes, 30 meeting summaries |
| Manager with many meetings to summarize | Pro, 49 USD per month billed yearly, 900 transcription minutes, 60 meeting summaries |
| Leadership team or department | Team, 149 USD per month billed yearly, up to 5 seats, 200 summaries, central billing |
| Company with SSO and an audit log requirement | Enterprise, 499 USD per month billed yearly, up to 20 seats |
If you buy for a team, the decision usually comes down to a simple calculation: minutes saved per document multiplied by the hourly cost of the people writing. The stenograph pricing page lists every limit.
Questions managers ask
Does a bot join my video calls?
No. Meetings are recorded on your own device, whether the conversation is in the room or playing through your computer. Nothing joins the call.
Can it assign action items to people?
Stenograph lists action items with the person named in the conversation, using speaker labels and names in your dictionary. You review the list before sending it.
Will my replies sound like me?
Yes. The words are yours, and you can create custom styles with your own greeting, sign-off and tone.
Can I try it before I subscribe?
Yes. The one-time demo on the home page lets you dictate a short email and see it formatted. Solo, the entry plan, is 24 USD per month with yearly billing; no plan is offered at zero.
Answer everyone faster today
Clear the inbox by voice and leave every meeting with the follow-up already written.