Privacy policy

The short version

• Your audio and the text made from it pass through Truespoken’s server to be transcribed and styled. They are not stored, and nobody reads them.
• Text you select passes through the same way, only when you edit it by voice.
• Your dictation history and recordings stay on your Mac.
• Your personal dictionary and settings follow your account, so every Mac you sign in on dictates the same way.
• The server keeps your account, your devices, your dictionary and settings, and a count of the words you used — never what you said.
• We don’t sell your data, show ads, or use your dictations to train models.

When you dictate

When you finish speaking, the Truespoken app sends the recording to Truespoken’s server, along with your chosen style, language and personal dictionary. The server sends the audio to Groq to be transcribed and, for styles, translation and review, sends the text to a language model hosted by Cerebras, or by Groq when Cerebras is busy. When Groq is busy or can’t be reached, the audio goes to ElevenLabs instead, then to DeepInfra, and if neither can be reached, to OpenRouter, which passes it to one of the companies hosting the same speech model: DeepInfra, Groq or Together AI. The result goes back to your Mac and is inserted where your cursor is.

The server holds the audio and text in memory only while it works on them. It does not write them to disk, to the database or to logs. Each of these companies processes them under its own privacy policy: Groq, ElevenLabs, DeepInfra, Cerebras, OpenRouter and Together AI.

When you fix a dictated word in the field it landed in, the app sends the original word, your correction and the sentence around it to the server, which asks the same language model whether it was a transcription slip. The answer goes back to your Mac, and nothing about it is stored on the server.

When you edit selected text by voice, by pressing Shift while recording or turning on Edit in the recording bar, the app also sends the text you selected, up to 20,000 characters, with your spoken instruction. The server sends both to the same language model, and the edited text goes back to your Mac to replace your selection. A regular dictation never sends your selection, and like everything else it is not stored or logged.

If the server can’t be reached, or you’re out of words, your Mac transcribes the recording on its own with Apple’s on-device speech recognition, and nothing leaves your Mac.

What stays on your Mac

Your dictation history and the recordings behind it are kept on your Mac, in Truespoken’s own folder, and never leave it except as the audio of a dictation. You can delete them from the app at any time. Your personal dictionary and your settings are kept on your Mac too, and a copy follows your account, below.

What the server keeps

• Your account: the ID of your sign-in account and your plan.
• Your devices: each Mac you sign in on, named after the Mac’s name, with when it was added and last used. The token each Mac uses is stored only as a one-way hash.
• Your dictionary and settings: the word pairs Truespoken learned from your corrections or you added, and your preferences (mode, style, the style for each app, language, review, finishing after silence and voice words), each with when it last changed, so every Mac you sign in on dictates the same way and the server can spell your words right. When you choose Apple on this Mac as the engine, your dictionary stays on your Mac. Deleting your account deletes them.
• Usage: one row per dictation with the number of words, the length of the audio, how long processing took and what it cost us. Never the audio or the text.
• Logs: timings, errors and which device made a request, kept by our host for a limited time. Never the audio or the text.

Signing in

Accounts are run by Clerk. When you sign in with Apple, Google, GitHub or an email code, Clerk keeps your email address and the basic profile that provider shares. Truespoken’s server receives only your Clerk account ID.

Paying

When Pro checkout opens, the subscription will be handled by Clerk Billing and Stripe. Truespoken never sees your card number.

The waitlist

If you join the waitlist, we keep your email address and the language of the page you used, and use them only to email you once, when Truespoken is ready. That email has an unsubscribe link, and if you ask us, we delete your address.

Who processes data for us

• Groq — transcription, and the language model when Cerebras is busy.
• ElevenLabs — transcription when Groq is busy.
• DeepInfra — transcription when Groq and ElevenLabs are busy.
• Cerebras — language models for styles, translation, review and checking your fixes.
• OpenRouter — backup transcription, through DeepInfra, Groq or Together AI.
• Clerk — sign-in and accounts.
• Stripe — payments.
• Neon — the database with accounts, devices, usage and the waitlist.
• Resend — sends the one email to the waitlist.
• Fly.io — runs Truespoken’s server.
• Cloudflare — serves this website.

Deleting your account

In Truespoken, open Settings → Account → Delete Account. That deletes your account at Clerk and every row about you on Truespoken’s server: devices and usage included. If you pay for Pro, the subscription ends at once and you aren’t charged again. What’s on your Mac stays there until you delete it.

Your rights

Brazil’s data protection law (the LGPD, Lei nº 13.709/2018) gives you the right to confirm whether we process your data, access it, correct it, have it deleted or transferred, learn who we share it with, and withdraw your consent. To use any of these rights, write to [email protected] from your account’s email address. You can also complain to Brazil’s data protection authority, the ANPD.

Changes and contact

The controller of your data under the LGPD is Zuhke Technology LTDA, CNPJ 26.452.699/0001-14, Avenida Juscelino Kubitschek 350, sala 133, Centro, Joinville – SC, 89201-100, Brazil. If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date. Questions or requests: [email protected].