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Privacy

The short version: everything happens on your machine, and nothing is sent to us. Here's exactly what that means.

Your audio never leaves your computer

Speech recognition runs locally, on your own CPU or GPU. Saut does not stream, upload, or buffer your microphone to any server — ours or anyone else's.

There is no account

No sign-up, no email, no login. Saut has no idea who you are, because there's nothing to identify you with.

No telemetry, no analytics

The app doesn't phone home. We don't count your words, track your usage, or collect crash reports about what you dictated.

It works with the internet switched off

Once your speech model is downloaded, Saut needs no connection at all. Unplug the network and it keeps working — which is the simplest proof that nothing is being sent anywhere.

What Saut stores, and where

Saut keeps a history of your transcriptions so you can copy something again later. This lives on your own disk, in plain files you control:

  • %APPDATA%\com.saut.app\history.db — your transcribed text
  • %APPDATA%\com.saut.app\recordings\ — the audio, if you keep recordings on

You can delete any entry from the History screen inside the app, set a retention period so old recordings clean themselves up, or simply delete those files. Nothing is kept anywhere else, because there is nowhere else.

The one time Saut uses the internet

Two things, both optional and both obvious when they happen:

  • Downloading a speech model. A one-time download when you first choose a model. After that it lives on your disk.
  • Checking for updates. Saut asks our releases page whether a newer version exists. It sends nothing about you — and you can turn it off in Settings.

Optional AI post-processing

Saut has an off-by-default feature that can clean up your transcription using an external AI provider. If — and only if — you switch it on and enter your own API key, your transcribed text is sent to that provider. Leave it off and nothing ever goes out. We mention it here because it's the single exception to "nothing leaves your machine", and you deserve to know about it plainly.