Voice assistant
sideOS
by Stockimg AI, Inc.
A Mac notch assistant you talk to, which reads the screen and operates apps, and also offers on-device dictation, meeting transcription and background tasks.
- Mac
Speech engines it runs
- Whisper by OpenAIWhisper large-v3-turbo, English: 3.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, No noise: 3.78%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 20 dB: 4.2%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 10 dB: 5.51%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 5 dB: 13.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 0 dB: 66.09%
- Apple SpeechAnalyzer by Apple
Word error rates from our own tests on public recordings: English in a quiet room and with background talk. Lower is better.
Every figure about sideOS
Each figure is a row of a research dataset. Open it for the exact words of its source or the exact request it was read from.
How Long Voice Assistants Keep Your Recordings
- sideOS, audio kept a year at most2026-10365 days
- sideOS, meeting audio on your Mac2026-10Meeting recordings and transcripts, memory, the activity history and your settings are stored locally, and your API keys are kept in the macOS Keychain. We hold no copy of any of it.
- sideOS, never sees your speech2026-10What you say, what is on your screen, your files, meetings and history stay on your Mac ... We never see them.
- sideOS, problem reports2026-10for as long as we need them to follow up. Ask us and we delete yours.
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