Privacy
Your voice never leaves your computer.
Koegakiis built so that privacy isn't a policy you have to trust. It's how the app works.
Your audio and transcripts
Speech recognition runs entirely on your device. Your microphone audio and the text it produces are processed locally and are never uploaded, stored on a server, or sent to us or any third party. There is no account to create.
When it uses the network
On first launch, Koegakidownloads its speech model so dictation can then run offline. Once that is done, the cleanup model downloads on its own (on a Mac, only when the app runs natively on Apple Silicon), and cleanup stays off until you turn it on. Dictation itself needs no internet connection at all. Beyond that, the app talks to the network to verify your license key (at activation, then a quiet daily check while licensed), to check koegaki.com for new versions, and, when an update installs, to download the new app package from our hosting storage. The app also asks koegaki.com once a day whether a newer speech or cleanup model exists, a request that carries nothing but the request itself. A newer cleanup model is offered on the Home screen, and nothing downloads until you choose to update it. A new speech model arrives only with an app update. When an update brings a new version of the speech model you use, the updated app downloads it automatically in the background from our model mirror, a download of several hundred megabytes, and you keep dictating on your current model until the new one is ready. That download is a plain request for the model files, carries nothing about you or your dictations, and uses only the internet connection you already have. That download, and the cleanup model download, waits while your computer is on a connection it treats as costly, and starts by itself once you are back on an ordinary connection. Costly connections include an iPhone's Personal Hotspot and Low Data Mode on a Mac, in Windows a cellular link and any network you marked as metered, which you can do for a phone hotspot, and on Linux any connection NetworkManager treats as metered. On a Mac, neither download starts while the Mac is on battery below 20 percent, and each goes ahead once the Mac is plugged in. A download you start yourself, and the first download after you install, go ahead on any connection. The license and update checks carry only license and version metadata; the update download is the app itself. None of this ever includes audio or transcripts.
The Mac App Store edition
Koegaki from the Mac App Store keeps your audio and transcripts on your Mac in the same way. What it sends over the network differs in three ways. You buy and restore it through Apple, as an in-app purchase, so we never see your Apple Account or your payment details. There is no license key, so the app makes no license check. Its updates come from the Mac App Store, so it never checks koegaki.com for new versions and never downloads an app package. What it does send is the request for the speech and cleanup model files from our model mirror, and the daily question to koegaki.com about a newer model, each carrying nothing but the request itself. It sends no audio, text, identifier, usage data or diagnostics, and its App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
This website
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Questions
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