What leaves your Mac

This page describes normal processing and component downloads. The terms for voluntarily sharing data are in the privacy policy.

Processing on your Mac

Recognition, translation and text processing run on your Mac, without sending them to the cloud. Transcripts are kept in local history. You choose whether meeting audio is saved to disk.

Network requests

Sign in, sign up, ask for a token — our own server. Sign-up carries your email, your password and a signature made with the install key.

Update check — verbaide.com/version.json, and only when you press the button in About. Never on its own.

Translation dictionary catalogue — cdn.verbaide.com, when Settings are open or when the language screen of the first-run setup is open.

Translation dictionary files — cdn.verbaide.com, when you download one.

Speech-model registry and models. The recognition/parakeet.json pointer and its manifest on cdn.verbaide.com are checked at launch, at most once a day. Offline, a cached or bundled manifest is used. The main model is downloaded from the CDN, with huggingface.co as the fallback source. The CTC term model (98 MB) downloads from Hugging Face in the background on first dictation. An installed model is updated with your agreement.

Speaker-labelling model. Downloaded from huggingface.co only when you press Download. Speaker labelling is experimental.

Style-model catalogue and manifest — cdn.verbaide.com/intelligence. Metadata only.

Style-model weights — huggingface.co/Qwen/…, when you start that download.

The dictionary and style-model requests carry no cookies and no authorization header.

Only with your consent

Usage counters. Numbers only — never text. The list: how many dictations and in which language or language pair; how long you spoke; how many characters came out (the count, not the characters); how long recognition, translation and styling each took; which paid feature was blocked; and your country, taken from the system region.

Two doors: by session when you are signed in, and when you are not, by a stable device id plus a signature made with the install key. If you did not allow statistics, none of this is sent.

The free tier

Free dictation and term dictionaries need no account and have no word cap. Download the speech models first; afterwards dictation works offline. Component catalogues fetched while Settings are open and the speech-registry check at launch do not depend on your plan.