> Are there other, more privacy oriented transcription services anyone can recommend?
Yes. Try https://aliceapp.ai, the iOS app's in the AppStore: https://aliceapp.ai/app. I created this specifically to be as privacy conscious as possible. There's a small, but strong team of engineers behind this and I'm the primary investor. It's not perfect, but works pretty well, with many relying on it everyday.
* We don't require your real email address, nor your phone number.
* We don't use passwords to login, to avoid easy or re-usable passwords. The login process is Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) by design.
* We don't track your location.
* We don't ask for access to your contacts.
* We don't ask you to allow push notifications.
* We don't store your credit card information in our database.
* We don't use tools like Google Analytics to track your behavior.
* We don't drop any cookies from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, et cetera (i.e. any social network) to track browsing habits.
* We aren't on social networks. Our focus is on the product and on communicating directly with you via email, text or phone. We are not into the game of getting "likes".
* We don't prompt you to give us a five-star rating on the App Store.
* We don't annoy you with newsletter signup popups.
* We don't serve you ads.
* Alice is only listening when it's obviously recording. Otherwise the mic is off by default.
Can you say anything about the technology? It appears that this app DOES NOT work fully offline? That would imply that it sends all audio recordings to someone's data center...
Some of your questions are answered in their Privacy policy https://aliceapp.ai/privacy. The data is stored in the US not encrypted at rest but also not used for marketing or research.
It's unfortunate you were downvoted. Perhaps it's because you're self-promoting, but you were up front about it and your pitch was relevant and focused on user needs.
It is up to us to do something about making our software more privacy conscious. And management/leaders/founders have to put up the money to support it.
This project is also an experiment to see if its possible to build a "successful" app without user behavior tracking, without endless AB testing.. and so far it seems totally possible.
I forgot to add that while I'm not an iPhone user (so can't test if it does this already) but if you can set it up to record phone calls it would be an absolute godsend for journalistic purposes.
Yes. Try https://aliceapp.ai, the iOS app's in the AppStore: https://aliceapp.ai/app. I created this specifically to be as privacy conscious as possible. There's a small, but strong team of engineers behind this and I'm the primary investor. It's not perfect, but works pretty well, with many relying on it everyday.
From the FAQs: https://aliceapp.ai/faqs
Is Alice secure?
* We don't ask for your name.
* We don't require your real email address, nor your phone number.
* We don't use passwords to login, to avoid easy or re-usable passwords. The login process is Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) by design.
* We don't track your location.
* We don't ask for access to your contacts.
* We don't ask you to allow push notifications.
* We don't store your credit card information in our database.
* We don't use tools like Google Analytics to track your behavior.
* We don't drop any cookies from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, et cetera (i.e. any social network) to track browsing habits.
* We aren't on social networks. Our focus is on the product and on communicating directly with you via email, text or phone. We are not into the game of getting "likes".
* We don't prompt you to give us a five-star rating on the App Store.
* We don't annoy you with newsletter signup popups.
* We don't serve you ads.
* Alice is only listening when it's obviously recording. Otherwise the mic is off by default.