Privacy
Your voice is the most personal data you produce. Dicta never sends it anywhere: not to us, not to a cloud, not to a model provider. Speech recognition, vocabulary correction and AI rewriting all run on your machine.
What never leaves your Mac
- Your dictated audio
- Your transcripts and dictation history
- Your personal dictionary ("My Words") and writing styles
The only network calls Dicta ever makes
Dictation itself needs none of these. You can verify this yourself: run Dicta with a firewall in block-all mode and dictation, corrections and the AI rewrite keep working.
- Model download
- Downloads the speech and rewrite model files from the model host (Hugging Face CDN) the first time you need them. Carries no audio or text.
- Update check
- Checks for a new app version (Sparkle). Carries no audio or text.
- License activate / refresh
- Sends a hashed license key and a device id, at most weekly, with a 30-day offline grace period. Never carries audio or text.
- Anonymous usage counters
- A separate, unauthenticated, pseudonymous call: an install id plus minutes/words/version counters, no content, no key hash, no device id. Off-switchable in Settings.
GDPR, in plain language
Dicta processes voice and text entirely on your device, under your control. That means no processor relationship with us for your dictation content, and nothing for us to disclose because we hold nothing. We phrase this as "GDPR-friendly by architecture" -- never "GDPR certified", and this page is not legal advice.
No trackers on this website
This website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics: cookieless, no fingerprinting, no cross-site tracking. No Google Analytics, no pixels, no third-party tags, no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.
This page describes the architecture as built. The final legal copy is pending a lawyer's review before launch; nothing above is legal advice.