Fact · Voice privacy and security
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Qwen Scribe's privacy document says dictated text is held in memory for at most a minute and is never written to disk.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 21, 2026
In the source's own words
“Then the text is held in memory only until the helper has collected and pasted it, at most a minute, and is never written to disk.”
Privacy (Qwen Scribe PRIVACY.md), VladUZH, GitHub repository qwen-scribe, 2026, Desktop dictation paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- This is the text while it waits to be pasted into the focused app.
- What it does not show
- Applies to the in-memory text only. The completed transcript is saved to history unless history is switched off.
In the data
A row of How Long Voice Assistants Keep Your Recordings, as Qwen Scribe, dictated text in memory: held in memory only until the helper has collected and pasted it, at most a minute days.
- Service
- Qwen Scribe
- What is kept
- Transcripts
- When
- At most
- Reviewed by people
- Not stated
- As of
- 2026-10