Your words belong to you.
- On the free plan, your voice is turned into text on your own machine, phone or desktop. It is never sent to us. We could not read it if we wanted to.
- On any plan, our servers never store what you say. Pro's optional cloud polish sends the text of a dictation, never the audio, to a trusted AI provider that cleans it up and discards it in the same request.
- Pro is a flat subscription with no word caps. We never keep what you say in order to bill you.
- We do not show ads and we do not sell your data to anyone, ever.
- Your dictionary stays on your device on the free plan, and syncs end-to-end encrypted on Pro.
The full policy is below.
1. Who we are
Fastspoken ("we", "us") is a voice dictation app operated by Fastspoken, based in New Zealand. Contact: contact@fastspoken.com.
2. The short answer to "do you have my voice?"
On the free plan, no. Speech recognition happens entirely on your own machine, phone or desktop. Audio and transcripts are created and used on your device and are never transmitted to us. On the Pro plan, if you use cloud polish, the text of a dictation is sent to our server and forwarded to a third-party AI provider (currently Groq) that cleans it up and returns the result. It is processed and discarded in the same request: our server does not write it to disk, log it, or keep it, and the provider processes it transiently and does not use it to train models. The audio never leaves your device on any plan; cloud polish handles text only, and only when you switch it on.
3. What we collect
Account data (only if you sign in): email address and plan status. An account is optional and the free app works without one. If you do sign in, this is what lets us give you the plan you are on. Payments are handled by Stripe; we never see or store your card details.
Usage counts (only if you sign in, on any plan): if you sign in, your app sends per-day totals: words dictated, number of dictation sessions, and time spent speaking. This is so your web dashboard can mirror the numbers your app already keeps locally. Numbers only, never the content of the words, and there are no word caps on any plan so nothing here is counting against you.
Diagnostics (opt-in): if you choose to send crash reports, we receive technical error data. This never includes your dictation text.
Website analytics: our website uses privacy-respecting, cookie-light analytics that do not profile you across the web.
4. What we never collect
Your audio. Your transcripts. Your dictation content. Your contacts or screen content. If you never sign in, nothing about your dictation reaches us at all. If you do sign in, we receive the counts described above and nothing else.
5. Dictation history
Off by default. If you turn on local history, transcripts are stored only on your device. They are never synced to us and never leave the device. You can clear them any time.
6. Your dictionary and settings
Your personal dictionary is yours. It is stored on your own device. On Pro, your dictionary and settings sync across your devices through us; that sync carries your word list and preferences, still never your dictation content, and you can turn it off.
7. Who we share data with (processors)
Only the services that run the product: Stripe (payments and billing), Supabase (accounts and database), Vercel (website and hosting, including Vercel Blob which delivers the app installers and its speech models), Resend (sending account emails), and a third-party AI provider (currently Groq) that performs Pro cloud polish on the text you choose to send, transiently and without training on it. Each processes only what its job requires. We never sell data and never share it for advertising.
8. Legal bases and your rights
We process account and usage data to provide the service you asked for and to meet legal and tax obligations. Under the NZ Privacy Act 2020, the GDPR, and similar laws, you can access, correct, export, or delete your data. Email contact@fastspoken.com and we will action it within the legal window. Because we hold so little, most requests are simple. You can also delete your account and all associated data yourself, at any time, from the Android app or from your account page on this site.
9. Data location and retention
Account and billing data are held in the Sydney region for as long as your account is active and as long as tax law requires after that. Dictation content is never retained, so there is nothing to delete.
10. Children
Fastspoken is not directed at children under 16.
11. Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date below and, for material changes, notify Pro users by email. We will never weaken the on-device or no-storage commitments without making it unmistakably clear.
12. Contact
contact@fastspoken.com. Fastspoken is operated from New Zealand and does not currently market to the EU or UK; if that changes, we will appoint a local representative under Article 27 GDPR and name them here first.
Last updated: 30 July 2026.