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About Saylo
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What we’re building
Saylo is building a private speech-practice necklace that helps kids work on therapist-selected sounds between sessions, without saving recordings. It’s a pill-sized wearable, starting with a necklace, that gives a gentle buzz and shows parents and therapists how practice is going.
Saylo at a glance
| Topic | Details |
|---|---|
| What it is | A speech-practice necklace in development: a small pill that clips into a necklace. |
| Who it’s for | Children about 6 to 8 who are working with a speech-language pathologist (SLP) on a speech sound, starting with R. |
| What it does | Listens for the practice words the SLP chose, scores each attempt on the device as correct, error or unsure, can give a gentle buzz, and keeps daily counts for parents and therapists. |
| Recordings | None kept. Audio is scored on the device and discarded within a second or two. |
| What it isn’t | A diagnosis, screening or treatment tool, or a replacement for an SLP. It isn’t designed for stuttering. |
| Status | In development. Not yet tested with children. |
| Timeline | Therapist early access spring 2027; founding-family beta summer 2027; launch planned for early 2028. |
| Also known as | Hey Saylo |
| Website | heysaylo.com |
Why
Children working on a speech sound need lots of practice between therapy sessions, and that practice is the hardest part to get right at home. Parents aren’t sure what to listen for, children don’t want to be corrected all day, and therapists can’t see what happened between visits. Saylo is an attempt to make that practice easier to do and easier to see, without turning a child’s speech into a daily test or recording them.
What we believe
- Effort over perfection. Saylo celebrates practice and never calls a child’s speech “wrong” or “bad”.
- Show the uncertainty. When Saylo isn’t sure, it says so.
- The therapist leads. Saylo organizes practice; it doesn’t diagnose or change a child’s therapy.
- Collect less. No recordings, no location, nothing kept without a clear reason.
- Screens are optional. The necklace works without a child opening an app.
- Accessible from the start. Plain language, readable design, and lights that don’t rely on colour alone.
Where Saylo stands
Saylo is in development and hasn’t been tested with children yet. It supports speech therapy and doesn’t replace a speech-language pathologist (SLP). Speech therapists get early access from spring 2027, families join a founding-family beta in summer 2027, and Saylo is planned to launch in early 2028.
Read how it works, the research behind it, and how privacy works.
Get in touch
Speech therapists who’d like early access, or to advise on Saylo or take part in a pilot, and families who want to hear first, can join the waitlist. For press, see the press page.