Voicetypr is a private, offline-by-default voice dictation app for Mac and Windows. Hold a hotkey, speak, and your words land in whatever field you are working in. In local mode the transcription happens entirely on your device, so your voice never leaves your machine — which matters in a country where the Garante has long set a firm tone on how personal data is handled.
Privacy in Italy
Italy applies the GDPR through the Codice Privacy (Legislative Decree 196/2003, updated by Legislative Decree 101/2018 to align with the Regulation), and the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali is one of Europe's more visible and active regulators. Italian organisations and professionals are used to asking where data is processed and who can reach it. Voicetypr answers that plainly: in local mode your audio is transcribed on your own machine, we store nothing on our servers, and no recording is shipped to a cloud transcription service. It is an architectural property, not a compliance badge — you remain the data controller, and Voicetypr is designed to help you meet your GDPR expectations under the Codice Privacy.
Governing law
Personal data in Italy is governed by the GDPR (in Italy, the Regolamento Generale sulla Protezione dei Dati / RGPD, alongside the Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali, the Codice Privacy). 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 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (the Garante). 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 Italy — no cloud round-trip required for core dictation.
Why it fits
FAQ
No tool can simply declare your organisation compliant — that depends on your full processing setup. What Voicetypr provides is the architecture that helps: 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 Codice Privacy, while you remain the controller responsible for compliance.
In local mode, nowhere off your device. The local Whisper and Parakeet models transcribe your speech directly on your Mac or Windows machine, so the audio is never uploaded. The optional cloud speech-to-text feature is off by default; only if you turn it on does that specific request reach the provider you chose.
Yes. The local models are multilingual and transcribe Italian well, including everyday business and technical vocabulary, and you can switch between Italian and English. Optional AI text formatting can tidy punctuation, accents, and capitalisation — that step sends only text, using your own AI provider and key, never your audio.
The Garante per la protezione dei dati personali is Italy's data protection authority and enforces the GDPR and the Codice Privacy. Because Voicetypr's core dictation keeps your voice on your device, you reduce the data-transfer surface the Garante scrutinises most — but you remain responsible for how you handle any personal data you produce.
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