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11 = yes, 0 = no

Ottex's FAQ says transcription can run fully local with Whisper, so no speech leaves the machine.

Checked against its source on October 26, 2026

In the source's own words

“run transcription fully local with Whisper ... then nothing leaves your machine.”

Ottex AI: Voice-to-Text and AI Meeting Notetaker for Mac, Ottex AI, 2026, FAQ, What happens to my recordings?.

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What it measures
Read on the maker's own page on 2026-10-26; the quote is the sentence that says the app has the feature (1) or does not (0).
What it does not show
The page lists Whisper, Parakeet, Qwen-ASR and Voxtral as local models; the FAQ quote names Whisper only.

In the data

A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Ottex AI: speech processed on the devic: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.

App
Ottex AI
Feature
Speech processed on the device
Detail
Local Whisper, Parakeet, Qwen-ASR, Voxtral
As of
2026-10
Note
1 means the maker's page says the app does this; 0 means the maker's page says it does not.

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