Fact · Voice privacy and security
HoldToType's privacy page says the recording of a dictation is held in memory while you hold the shortcut and is dropped once it has been recognized. It is never written to disk as a file.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“The recording is held in memory while you hold the shortcut and dropped as soon as it has been recognised. It is never written to disk as a file, and it never leaves the computer unless you have configured a remote recognition server yourself (section 5).”
HoldToType privacy: what leaves your computer when you dictate, Vitalii Yemets, HoldToType (holdtotype.com), 2026, 2. Your voice and your text.
Open the original- What it measures
- The page describes the free Windows app and its default install. Recognition runs on a speech model stored on the user's own disk. The author runs no server that receives audio.
- What it does not show
- The sentence describes the default install. If the user points recognition at a remote server, the audio goes there, under that service's own terms, which this page does not cover. The page has no number of days because the recording is dropped after each dictation.
In the data
A row of How Long Voice Assistants Keep Your Recordings, as HoldToType audio: The recording is held in memory while you hold the shortcut and dropped as soon as it has been recognised. days.
- Service
- HoldToType
- What is kept
- Audio recordings
- When
- By default
- Reviewed by people
- No
- As of
- 2026-10