Privacy Policy: TalkingKey

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• TalkingKey's privacy policy says dictated audio is held in memory only during transcription and is never sent off the device.

  “Audio is held in memory for the duration of transcription and is not written to permanent storage, and it is never transmitted off your device.” (Section 3, Your voice and audio)

• TalkingKey's privacy policy says no recordings or transcripts are sent to the company or to any third party.

  “No recordings or transcripts sent to us or to any third party.” (Section 2, What we do NOT collect)

• TalkingKey's privacy policy says audio is processed locally by the on-device Whisper engine on the user's Mac.

  “Audio is captured only while you hold the push-to-talk key. It is processed locally by the on-device Whisper engine (whisper.cpp) and used solely to produce your text.” (Section 3, Your voice and audio)

• TalkingKey's privacy policy says it does not log, retain or transmit your transcribed text. It gives no number of days.

  “We do not log, retain, or transmit your transcribed text.” (Section 4, Transcribed text)

• TalkingKey's privacy policy says the app works offline for transcription, although it makes a few network requests unrelated to speech.

  “TalkingKey works offline for transcription. It does make a small number of network requests unrelated to your speech:” (Section 5, Network connections the app makes)