Security and privacy

Your voice does not have to leave your computer

Mr.Speech has a fully private mode that runs speech recognition, search and speaker recognition entirely on your own machine. When you do choose the cloud, it is processed in Europe. You pick which, per task.

  • Fully private mode, no account needed
  • Cloud processing stays in Europe
  • Credentials in your OS keychain
  • Export everything, any time
Where processing happens

Three paths, and you choose

On your machine

Your computer
Your voiceRecognitionText in your app

Speech recognition, semantic search and meeting transcription all have full on-device implementations. No account, no connection.

Nothing crosses this line

European cloud

Europe
Your voiceEU processingText in your app

When you choose accuracy over isolation, audio is processed on European infrastructure. The processors are named in our privacy policy.

Leaves your machine, stays in Europe

The same recording, two paths. You choose per task, and nothing switches behind your back.

Where processing happens

Three paths, and you choose

The same recording can be handled three different ways. Nothing switches behind your back.

On your machine

Nothing leaves the room

The on-device speech engine handles 40 languages with real punctuation and runs about 7 to 9 times faster than real time on an ordinary processor. Semantic search and speaker recognition also have full on-device implementations. No account, no internet, no audio leaving the machine.

European cloud

Higher accuracy, processed in Europe

Speech recognition, document reading and AI summaries run on European infrastructure. The specific providers are named in our privacy policy so you can check them against your own procurement rules.

Your own key

Bring your own AI, or run it yourself

Point the AI features at your own provider account, an enterprise endpoint, or a model you run locally. You are never locked to one vendor, and neither is the product.

Commitments

What we do, and what we never do

01

You are never silently downgraded

If you are paying for cloud transcription, Mr.Speech will not quietly swap you to a weaker engine when something fails. Errors are shown, not hidden. The only exception is running out of your monthly quota, and that is surfaced to you directly.

02

Credentials live in your operating system keychain

API keys and tokens are stored by the OS credential manager, never written into a config file next to your notes.

03

No ads, no data resale

Your recordings, transcripts and notes are not a product we sell. Usage analytics can be switched off in settings.

04

The accuracy feature that reads your text field can be switched off

To place dictated text correctly, Mr.Speech can read the field you are typing into. That is a setting you control, and it never touches password fields.

05

Speaker labelling is optional

Meetings separate who spoke so a summary can attribute correctly. Turn labelling off and a meeting renders as You and Others only, with the two audio channels still kept apart.

06

No lock-in, by design

Every note exports as PDF, as a self-contained HTML file, or as a folder of plain Markdown files that mirror themselves as you type. If you leave, you take everything, and it opens in any text editor.

Questions

Security questions people actually ask

Can I use Mr.Speech with no internet at all?

Yes. Dictation, notes, semantic search and on-device meeting transcription all work offline. Cloud accuracy and the AI features are the parts that need a connection, and they are opt-in.

Where is my audio stored?

Recordings and notes live on your own machine. Meeting audio is written to disk continuously while recording, which is also what lets a call be recovered if the app or the computer stops unexpectedly.

Is Mr.Speech GDPR friendly for a European team?

The design intent is European first: a fully on-device path for work that cannot leave the building, and European processing for everything else. What you need for your own assessment, including the named processors, is in the privacy policy.

Do you use my recordings to train models?

No. Your recordings, transcripts and notes are not used to train models, and they are not sold or shared for advertising.

Does Mr.Speech analyse how people sound?

No. There is no sentiment score, no mood detection and no speaker energy metric anywhere in the product. We explain why on the EU AI Act page.

Security and privacy

Try the private mode first

Install it, turn the cloud off, and dictate for a week without a single byte leaving your computer.