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The hns documentation says audio is processed entirely on the local machine, using a local Whisper model.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“Audio is processed entirely on your local machine using local Whisper.”
Welcome to hns Documentation, primaprashant, hns project (hns-cli.dev), 2026, Highlights: 100% Local Speech Recognition.
Open the original- What it measures
- The sentence is the first line of the documentation's privacy highlight.
- What it does not show
- The page describes the default local Whisper setup. Models and languages are set by environment variables, and the page does not list which models are supported.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as hns: speech on device: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- hns
- Feature
- Speech processed on the device
- Detail
- local Whisper
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this