Fact · Voice privacy and security
Holos's privacy policy says audio is never written to disk and never transmitted anywhere. It is held in memory while you speak and released when the dictation finishes.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“Audio is never written to disk and never transmitted anywhere. It is held in memory while you speak and released when the dictation finishes.”
Holos privacy policy, Yurii Moskviak, Holos (holosvoice.com), 2026, The application: Your voice.
Open the original- What it measures
- The policy covers the Holos application on the user's Mac. Speech is recognized on the Mac with local speech models. The policy says there is no analytics, no crash reporting and no usage measurement.
- What it does not show
- The policy gives no number of days for audio because the audio is not kept after the dictation. It describes the app as shipped; the two network requests it lists (a model download and a version check) carry no speech.
In the data
A row of How Long Voice Assistants Keep Your Recordings, as Holos audio: It is held in memory while you speak and released when the dictation finishes. days.
- Service
- Holos
- What is kept
- Audio recordings
- Reviewed by people
- No
- As of
- 2026-10