Official documentation
Asking Permission to Use Speech Recognition (Speech framework documentation)
Apple Inc., n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- Apple's developer guide to asking permission for speech recognition. It says that recognition with SFSpeechRecognizer sends captured voice audio to Apple's servers, and that the SpeechAnalyzer transcriber modules do not send that audio.
- How much weight it carries
- Official Apple developer documentation, written for app developers. It describes Apple's behavior for its own frameworks, and it has not been tested here against live traffic.
Facts taken from this source
- Apple says that the permission process applies only to speech recognition with SFSpeechRecognizer, and that SpeechAnalyzer transcriber modules do not send the user's voice audio to Apple's servers.
“This process only applies to speech recognition using ... transcriber modules don’t send audio data of the user’s voice to Apple’s servers.” (Discussion)