Your voice, your data

Speakmac records audio locally on your device when you activate recording. The audio is kept in a temporary file so the app can produce the transcript you requested.

Crash diagnostics and basic usage analytics are opt-in. When enabled, they capture anonymized technical details so we can fix bugs faster.

Transcription happens entirely on your Mac. Audio is processed locally and never uploaded to Speakmac servers or any third-party transcription provider.

If you turn on Text Intelligence beta, Speakmac sends the final transcript text, not your audio recording, through Speakmac cloud cleanup so it can improve filler words, punctuation, casing, and paragraphing before paste.

We never sell or share transcripts, recordings, or analytics events with advertisers. Data is only used to deliver the transcription you asked for and to maintain the product.

Text Intelligence is optional and off by default. When enabled, Speakmac sends the final transcript text plus minimal app context needed for formatting to Speakmac cloud infrastructure and OpenRouter.

Speakmac does not save Text Intelligence request bodies or responses on Speakmac servers. Production requests are authorized through Speakmac relay/session infrastructure instead of exposing a long-lived provider key in the app, and are sent to OpenRouter with Zero Data Retention routing enabled.

The cleanup prompt is designed to preserve meaning: it should remove filler, improve punctuation and paragraphing, and avoid inventing facts or changing commands.

A detailed explainer is available at /help/text-intelligence.

If you want the local-only behavior, leave Text Intelligence turned off. Normal dictation continues to run on-device.

Temporary recordings created during transcription are deleted automatically after the transcript is pasted unless you enable the optional recovery feature.

You can delete past transcripts and snippets at any time from the app. Removing them clears the associated audio files from local storage.

Speakmac does not send recordings to external transcription APIs. Optional Text Intelligence cleanup sends transcript text through Speakmac cloud infrastructure and OpenRouter only when you enable the beta.

We use Vercel Analytics and PostHog to understand traffic patterns on speakmac.app. These tools rely on cookies and device data to provide aggregate usage metrics.

All analytics are optional. You can disable them from in the app settings at any time.

If you have questions about how Speakmac handles data, email [email protected] and we will respond within five business days.