SayIt is an open source Django application or project to store transcripts and present them in a modern, searchable format.

One example of SayIt in action is mySociety's website sayit.mysociety.org which contains a variety of transcripts, including:

• The Leveson Inquiry
• The Charles Taylor trial
• The plays of Shakespeare

Another is OpenHouse Nova Scotia, providing an unofficial record of the proceedings of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

SayIt is a Poplus component by mySociety.

If you have transcripts you'd like to be included on our website, or have the technical skills to create such transcripts, please see http://sayit.mysociety.org/about/community.

For more information on how to use SayIt in your own Django project or as a standalone site, please see our documentation:

• Installation
• Testing
• Development

In a virtualenv, to run the tests:

pip install -e .[test]
./manage.py test speeches