Voicetypr is a private, offline-by-default voice dictation app for Mac and Windows. Hold a hotkey, speak, and the text appears in whatever field you are working in. In local mode, transcription runs entirely on your device, so your voice never leaves your machine. Belgium works in two languages, and the local models transcribe both Dutch and French on-device — so you can dictate in either and switch between them.
Privacy in Belgium
Belgium runs on more than one language — Dutch in Flanders, French in Wallonia — and Brussels is the political capital of the EU, where work happens in Dutch and French side by side. That makes a dictation tool stuck on a single language a poor fit. Voicetypr's local models transcribe both Dutch and French on your own machine, so you can dictate in either, switch between them, and stay offline the whole time. In local mode your audio is transcribed on-device, we store nothing on our servers, and no recording is sent to a cloud transcription service. Belgium implements the GDPR through the Act of 30 July 2018, overseen by the Data Protection Authority (the APD/GBA). This is architecture, not a certificate — you remain the controller of your own data, and Voicetypr is designed to help you meet your GDPR expectations.
Governing law
Personal data in Belgium is governed by the GDPR (in Belgium, implemented through the Act of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data). Voicetypr's local-first architecture is designed to help you meet those expectations — you remain responsible as the data controller.
Regulator
Oversight comes from the Data Protection Authority (DPA) — the Autorité de protection des données (APD) in French, the Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (GBA) in Dutch. Because core dictation keeps your audio on your device, you cut down the data-transfer surface they scrutinise most.
Language support
Whisper is multilingual, so the local models handle the languages people actually work in across Belgium — no cloud round-trip required for core dictation.
Why it fits
FAQ
Compliance is a property of your full processing setup, so no tool can certify it for you. What Voicetypr offers is helpful architecture: in local mode, transcription runs on your device, your voice never leaves your machine, and we store nothing on our servers. By keeping your audio off any cloud, Voicetypr is designed to help you meet your GDPR obligations under the Act of 30 July 2018, while you remain the controller responsible for compliance.
Yes. The local models are multilingual and transcribe both Dutch and French on your own Mac or Windows machine, so you can dictate in either language — or switch between them — without a cloud round-trip. That fits a bilingual country and a city like Brussels, where both languages are in daily use. Optional AI text formatting can tidy punctuation and casing, and that step sends only text, using your own AI provider and key.
Not in local mode. The local Whisper and Parakeet models transcribe your speech on your own Mac or Windows machine, so the audio is never uploaded. The optional cloud speech-to-text feature is off by default; it only reaches your chosen provider if you deliberately enable it.
Belgium's regulator is the Data Protection Authority (DPA) — the Autorité de protection des données (APD) in French and the Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (GBA) in Dutch — which supervises the GDPR alongside the Belgian Act of 30 July 2018. Because Voicetypr's core dictation keeps your voice on your device, you reduce the data-transfer surface the APD/GBA focuses on — though you remain responsible for how you handle any personal data you produce.
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