Fact · Dictation software
No
Sawti's privacy policy says the app sends a recording of your voice to its own server and from there to OpenAI for transcription, so speech is not processed on the device.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“يرسل التطبيق تسجيلًا لصوتك إلى خادمنا ومنه إلى OpenAI للتفريغ”
Sawti privacy policy (version 2.4), Sawti, 2026, Privacy policy, dictation data section.
Open the original- What it measures
- The sentence before it says the app records a short clip and sends it once over an encrypted HTTPS connection to Sawti's server.
- What it does not show
- The policy describes the server path in the current version (2.4). It does not describe an offline transcription mode.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Sawti: speech on device: 0 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Sawti
- Feature
- Speech processed on the device
- Detail
- audio sent to OpenAI for transcription
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 0 means the maker's page says it does not