Is dictation software GDPR-compliant?

It depends entirely on where your voice data goes. Cloud dictation tools upload audio or text to a server for processing, which makes the vendor a processor under GDPR and typically requires a data processing agreement (DPA).

Dicta’s architecture avoids that question rather than answering it: speech recognition and the AI rewrite both run on your device, so there is no cloud processing of dictation content, nothing that needs a DPA for that content path, and nothing we could disclose in a data subject access request because we never hold it. We describe this as GDPR-friendly by architecture, not as a certification, since GDPR compliance depends on your organization’s full processing activities, not just one tool. See Dicta for privacy & compliance for the fuller picture; this is not legal advice.