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A conversation with SayOVA on a round watch: the orb listens, remembers that the user is vegetarian, suggests a chickpea curry and sets a twenty-minute timer

The SayOVA guide

Orb Voice Assistant – talk to AI from your wrist.

Welcome! This guide explains everything SayOVA can do, one page per topic, with a picture of every screen. You can open it from the watch at any time: Settings → Help & guide opens it on your phone.

💡 New here? Start with Getting started — about five minutes from installing to your first conversation.

SayOVA in one minute

SayOVA is a voice assistant for Wear OS that you talk to like a person. Tap Talk, ask anything, and the answer comes back spoken while you can read along. Speak over it to interrupt, ask a follow-up, change your mind. It sets timers and alarms, checks the weather, measures your heart rate, reads your calendar, prepares messages on your phone, interprets between two languages and remembers what you ask it to — all with your own API key from Google or OpenAI, so there is no subscription and no SayOVA server between you and the AI.

Contents

Page What it covers
🚀 Getting started Installing, the sample conversation, choosing a provider, pairing your key, the introduction
🔑 API keys Getting a key from Google AI Studio or OpenAI, billing, switching and removing keys
💬 Conversations Starting, the orb and its states, interrupting, transcript, volume, push-to-talk
⏱️ Timers, alarms and notes What SayOVA does on the watch without any permission, and web search
⌚ Watch features Location, weather, heart rate, steps, calendar, music, calls, apps, notifications and more
📱 Prepare on phone Messages, e-mails, calendar events and routes, waiting on your phone
🧠 Memory What SayOVA remembers about you, and how to see and delete it
🌍 Interpreter Two people, two languages, one watch
🗂️ History Reading, continuing, sending to your phone and deleting conversations
💸 Costs and budget What a conversation costs, the statistics and the monthly budget
⚙️ Settings Every setting, one by one
🧩 Tile, complication and shortcuts Starting SayOVA faster
🔒 Privacy and security Where your voice, key and data go — and where they don't
🛟 Troubleshooting Error messages, and what to do when something doesn't work

What you need

  • A Wear OS 3 or newer watch with a microphone — Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch, TicWatch and others.
  • An API key from Google AI Studio (recommended, about 1–2 ¢ a minute) or OpenAI.
  • A phone with a camera, once, to hand the key to the watch. No companion app is needed.
  • SayOVA from Google Play.

Questions?

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