The short version: Typort runs on your own computer. Your dictation is
transcribed on your device and never leaves it — unless you turn on a cloud feature
(sync, cloud AI cleanup, or shareable recordings). Those are opt-in,
we tell you plainly when data leaves your machine, and you can ask us to delete anything we hold.
Who we are
Typort is made by Human Compute, LLC, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. This policy covers
the Typort desktop app, the Typort Vault browser extension, and the optional cloud services behind
them.
What stays on your device (the default)
By default, Typort is local-first. When you dictate:
Your audio is transcribed on your own computer by a local speech model.
The audio and the resulting text are not sent anywhere.
Recent recordings, so you can recover a dictation that went wrong.
Only the 15 most recent are kept, and older ones are deleted automatically as you
dictate.
Training audio — this one is different and worth reading carefully.
Every time you dictate, Typort also saves that audio clip and its text into a training
set on your machine. Nothing is ever removed from it. Over months of use
it becomes a complete archive of your recorded voice, and it will keep growing for as
long as you use Typort. It exists so that a speech model can be trained on the way you
actually speak, and it never leaves your computer. Typort does not currently offer a way
to clear it from inside the app; you can delete the folder yourself at any time.
Nothing leaves your device unless you ask it to, with two exceptions we
describe below: the version check, and Polished mode's cleanup pass. Your audio never
leaves your computer in any mode.
What is sent to the cloud
These features send data off your device. Most are off until you turn them on; the one
exception is Polished mode's cleanup pass, which is on by default for new installations and is
called out below.
Cloud sync / Context Vault. If you enable it, the items you choose to sync
(for example your captured AI conversations or dictation history) are stored on our servers
so you can search them across devices. This data is tied to your account.
Polished mode, fact-check, and meeting insights. In Polished
mode the text of what you said is sent to our servers for one cleanup pass and
returned to you. Your audio is never sent in this mode — only the
words, after they have been transcribed on your own machine.
On a new installation this cleanup runs on our servers by default,
from the first time you sign in. If you have been running Typort since before this
changed, your installation stays local and will not start sending text on its own.
Press F10 for Raw mode and nothing leaves your computer at all. Raw
transcribes on your own machine and makes no network call. The mode is shown on screen
each time you switch, so you always know which one you are in. Raw is the way to keep
your words on your machine: there is no longer a local cleanup model to switch Polished
over to.
Beam recordings. If you create a shareable screen recording, the video is
uploaded to our storage so the share link works. You control who you give the link to.
Meetings capture pictures of your screen
When you record a meeting, Typort also captures still images of your screen. It watches for
meaningful changes rather than filming continuously, so it saves a picture when something on
screen actually changes — sometimes just the part that changed, sometimes the whole screen.
The images are stored in the meeting's folder on your computer alongside the audio and the
transcript. This is on by default and can be switched off in Settings before you start a
meeting.
Problem reports
If you choose to send a problem report, it includes your last three transcriptions as
text, along with your settings and a slice of the app log. It contains no audio, no
files, no browsing history and no IP address. The report window shows you what is in it before
anything is sent, and nothing is sent unless you press the button.
Checking for updates
Typort checks typort.com for a new version when it starts, and again about every two days
while it is running. The request sends only the app version — nothing you
dictate, record or type is ever included, and it carries no account, no machine identifier and
no installation identifier.
This check is automatic and there is no setting that stops it. What you do control is what
happens when an update is found: unless you have chosen automatic updates in Settings, nothing
is downloaded or installed without your permission.
The browser extension (Typort Vault)
The Typort Vault extension captures your conversations from supported AI platforms (ChatGPT,
Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Gemini) into your browser's local storage, and only reads pages on those
platforms. Captured items stay in your browser unless you turn on cloud sync above.
Service providers we use
When a cloud feature is on, we rely on:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) — hosting and storage for synced data
and recordings (United States).
Amazon Bedrock (part of AWS, United States) — the AI models behind
Polished mode, fact-check and meeting insights run here. Text you send for a cloud AI
feature is processed by Bedrock and the result returned to you. We do not send your
text to any other AI provider.
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use your private dictation content to advertise
to you.
How long we keep it
Local recordings: only the 15 most recent are kept — older ones are deleted automatically as you dictate.
Cloud-synced data and recordings: kept until you delete them or ask us to.
Your choices and deleting your data
Local data is under your control — clear it in the app or by uninstalling.
Cloud data — to delete anything we hold for you (synced items, recordings), email us at adam@humancompute.com
and we will delete it from our servers.
Depending on where you live (for example under GDPR or CCPA), you may have rights to access,
correct, or delete your data, and to ask us not to sell it (we don't). Email us to exercise them.
The website
Our marketing website (typort.com) may use standard analytics and advertising pixels to measure
how people find us. These are part of the website only — they do not see your dictation or app data.
Children's privacy
Typort is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.
Changes to this policy
If we update this policy we'll change the date above, and for material changes we'll tell you in
the app.