# Private dictation. Your voice stays on your iPhone.

> Keyspoken. Markdown copy of https://keyspoken.com/private-dictation. Publisher: Kymata Labs LLC. Last updated: 2026-11-12.

Keyspoken is a private dictation app for iPhone: on-device speech recognition, no account, no analytics. Audio and text never leave the phone.

Source: https://keyspoken.com/private-dictation

### What on-device means

When you dictate with Keyspoken, the audio goes from the microphone to a speech model that is stored on your iPhone, and comes out as text. It is never uploaded, because there is no server in the design to upload it to.

### What Keyspoken collects

Nothing. There is no account to create, no analytics, no advertising and no crash-reporting service. Audio is discarded as soon as it is transcribed and is never written to disk.

### The details, plainly

- Your text is inserted where your cursor is. If you dictate with no text field open, it is held on your iPhone for up to ten minutes and copied to your clipboard, then deleted.
- Your settings and custom vocabulary are stored on your iPhone.
- The keyboard has Full Access only so it can reach its own app. It makes no network requests.
- The one network request the app makes is the speech model download.

### A note on compliance

We make no legal or regulatory compliance claims. If you work under rules about recorded speech or client data, check them with your organization before you rely on any dictation tool.

### Questions

**Is my voice sent to a server?**
No. Keyspoken transcribes on the iPhone and has no cloud transcription.

**Does Keyspoken record what I type on my normal keyboard?**
No. Keyspoken has no letter keys and cannot see what you type on other keyboards.

**Is my voice used to train AI?**
No. Keyspoken has no way to send audio anywhere, and the model on your phone does not change as you use it.