Fact · Dictation software
01 = yes, 0 = no
SOND's privacy policy says the server sends the audio to AssemblyAI for transcription.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“The server sends the audio to AssemblyAI for transcription with speaker separation”
SOND Privacy Policy, Evdokimov.ai, 2026, How processing works section.
Open the original- What it measures
- Recordings are saved on the phone. When a recording is processed, the audio is uploaded to the maker's server, which sends it to AssemblyAI.
- What it does not show
- The home page describes an on-device search index, but the policy says the iOS app sends transcript passages to Alibaba Cloud to build it.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as SOND: speech not on device: 0 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- SOND
- Feature
- Speech processed on the device
- Detail
- Transcribed by AssemblyAI on a server
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 0 means the maker's page says it does not