Voicetypr is a private, offline-by-default voice dictation app for Mac and Windows. Hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in whatever field you are working in. In local mode, transcription runs entirely on your device — so your voice never travels to a server, whether you are writing an email in European Portuguese or switching to English. Portugal sits inside the GDPR, and keeping your voice on your own machine is the simplest way to respect that.
Privacy in Portugal
Portuguese is one of the world's most spoken languages, and Portugal anchors the European side of it. Voicetypr's local Whisper and Parakeet models transcribe European Portuguese on your own machine, so your daily dictation stays offline and private — no recording is shipped to a cloud transcription service. Portugal follows the GDPR, executed nationally by Lei n.º 58/2019 and overseen by the CNPD, and Portuguese users expect to know where their data goes. In local mode your audio is transcribed on the device and we store nothing on our servers, which removes a whole class of data-transfer questions before they start. 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 Portugal is governed by the GDPR (in Portugal, executed nationally by Lei n.º 58/2019). 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 Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD). 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 Portugal — no cloud round-trip required for core dictation.
Why it fits
FAQ
Compliance is something your full processing setup earns, so no tool can hand it to you. What Voicetypr offers is the architecture that makes it easier: 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, 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 handle European Portuguese well, including everyday business and technical vocabulary, and you can switch between Portuguese and English. Optional AI text formatting can tidy punctuation and casing afterwards — that step sends only text, using your own AI provider and key.
Portugal applies the GDPR, executed nationally by Lei n.º 58/2019 and overseen by the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD). Because Voicetypr's core dictation keeps your voice on your device, you reduce the data-transfer surface the CNPD scrutinises most — though you remain responsible for how you handle any personal data you produce.
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