What Bolikh does with your data.

When you hold the dictation key, Bolikh records from your microphone into memory. As soon as you let go, the audio is turned into text on your computer and then discarded. Audio is never written to disk and never uploaded.

The text is typed into the app you are using. If History is on (the default), your last 200 dictations are saved in a file in Bolikh's settings folder on your computer. You can clear it or turn it off in the app. Your dictionary and settings are stored the same way.

To type the text, Bolikh briefly places it on your clipboard, pastes it, and then restores what was there before. It does not keep or send clipboard contents.

Bolikh connects to the internet for one thing: downloading the speech model (NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, about 670 MB) from Hugging Face on first launch, or again if you choose Retry. Hugging Face sees a normal download request from your IP address. After that, Bolikh works offline.

There is no account, no analytics, no crash reporting and no advertising in the app. This website does not use cookies. Bolikh’s source code is public, so you can check all of this yourself.

Microphone, to hear you. On macOS, Accessibility, to notice the dictation key in other apps and to paste. On Linux, access to input devices for the key. These are used only for dictation.

If you email or message us, we use your details only to reply and to send you the download you asked for. We do not sell or share them.

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