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Dictately Privacy Policy
Dictately, Dictately, 2026
Read the originalRead on October 26, 2026
- What it is
- Dictately's privacy policy. It says when transcription runs on the Mac and when audio goes to third-party speech-to-text providers, and that the text used for cleanup goes to a language-model provider.
- How much weight it carries
- The maker's own privacy policy, read on 2026-10-26. It describes the maker's stated data handling, not an audit of it.
Facts taken from this source
- Dictately's privacy policy says transcription runs locally on an Apple Silicon Mac when English is selected and the on-device model has downloaded.
“If you are on an Apple Silicon Mac, have explicitly selected English as your dictation language, and the on-device model has finished downloading, transcription runs locally.” (Section 1.1, 'On your Mac')
- Dictately's privacy policy says the transcribed text is sent to a third-party language-model provider to clean it up.
“After transcription, the resulting text is sent to a third-party language-model provider to clean it up” (Section 1.1, 'In the cloud')