Fact · Dictation software
Clovy's privacy policy says transcription sends audio to its own backend for processing.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“when you use transcription, note generation, dictation cleanup, agent, or similar features that send audio, transcripts, prompts, files, context, or agent messages for processing, Clovy routes those requests through our publicly verifiable confidential-compute backend”
Privacy Policy | OpenSoftware, Open Software Network, 2026, Model processing paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- OpenSoftware's own privacy policy for Clovy, read in October 2026.
- What it does not show
- The Free tier lists 'Local model support'. The policy does not say that local models can transcribe speech, so this row covers the default path only.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Clovy: speech not on device: 0 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Clovy
- Feature
- Speech processed on the device
- Detail
- Audio goes to Clovy's backend
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 0 means the maker's page says it does not