Fact · Dictation software
Yes
CursorTalk's privacy policy says it processes spoken audio locally on the Mac.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“CursorTalk processes spoken audio locally on your Mac. We do not send your voice recordings or transcribed text to our servers for cloud transcription.”
CursorTalk privacy policy, CursorTalk (by axxshen), 2026, 1. Local-first product principle.
Open the original- What it measures
- The privacy policy's statement of how speech is processed.
- What it does not show
- The policy says audio is processed on-device during normal use, and that a temporary local file is created during recording and then deleted.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as CursorTalk: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- CursorTalk
- Feature
- Speech processed on the device
- Detail
- Audio processed locally on the Mac
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this