Fact · Dictation software
TalkToType's privacy policy says audio is sent to a speech-to-text provider, which processes it to make the transcript.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“When you transcribe, the audio is sent directly from your computer to your chosen provider under your account. ... Groq and Google Gemini Enterprise (formerly Vertex AI) process the audio to produce a transcript and discard it after the request completes.”
Privacy Policy - TalkToType, Laurens van Leer B.V., 2026, How your audio is handled.
Open the original- What it measures
- Two passages from the policy: the bring-your-own-key mode and the managed mode.
- What it does not show
- Both passages describe a cloud provider. The policy does not describe any on-device speech engine.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as TalkToType: speech on device: 0 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- TalkToType
- Feature
- Speech processed on the device
- Detail
- audio goes to Groq, OpenAI or Google
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 0 means the maker's page says it does not