That's the short version.
Auris stores no audio and no transcripts.
Here's exactly how the architecture works.
Run Whisper locally for transcription, Ollama (or any local LLM) for polish. Outbound network traffic is empty. No telemetry, no analytics, no error reporting, no update pings, no model-training payloads. Pull the network cable. It still works.
Your microphone, your machine. Audio captured locally.
→Speech-to-text runs locally by default. Cloud goes to Groq, never us.
→Transcript goes to your LLM of choice for polish. Auris never sees it.
→Polished result lands in the window you started in.
The polish step runs through your account at OpenAI, Anthropic, or Groq. Your transcript (and audio, if you also chose cloud speech-to-text) goes from your machine to the provider you chose, then back.
Auris never sees it.
The provider's privacy policy applies to that hop. Speech-to-text can independently be set to local, in which case audio never leaves your machine even on this path.
The polish step runs locally through Ollama, LM Studio, or any compatible local server. Nothing leaves your computer.
No API calls. No network. Works on a plane.
Or skip the LLM entirely. Auris ships with built-in rules-based polish. Capitalization, spacing, and common fixes. Lighter touch than an LLM, but it works with zero setup and zero dependencies.
All as files on your machine.
Delete any of it whenever.
That's what we need to send you the license and let you know when there's a meaningful update. Unsubscribe any time with one click.
No copy. No backup. No analytics.
Anything matching an email pattern.
Never saved to your transcript history.
US and international phone numbers. Lands in the app, never in history.
Social Security Numbers.
Used in the moment, not stored.
16-digit card numbers, all major schemes. Typed once, gone after.
How redaction works. Patterns match locally after the transcript returns, so cloud STT or cloud LLM polish sees unredacted content first; only your local history gets filtered. Add your own regex for company IDs, project codes, anything else. Pre-send redaction for cloud paths is on the roadmap.
Local Whisper keeps audio on-device. Bytes opened, processed, discarded in RAM. If you choose cloud STT (Groq, etc.), audio goes to the provider only.
Zero analytics, zero crash reports, zero usage stats. No opt-out switch because there's nothing to opt out of.
Bring your Anthropic, OpenAI, or Groq key. Or run a local LLM for full privacy. Auris never proxies your keys.
Memos as .md, history as .jsonl, dictionary as .json. Nothing locked inside a proprietary archive.
Memos, dictations, and the dictionary live on your machine. Take them, move them, copy them, delete them. Nothing is locked inside Auris.
Your license is yours, now and forever. There's no server-side check that can turn it off, because there is no server. Keep it, transfer it, your choice.
To erase everything Auris knows about you: delete the ~/Library/Auris/ folder on your Mac (or %APPDATA%\Auris\ on Windows).
No. We don't have audio or transcript data to sell, and the email we hold for licensing isn't shared.
In our customer database (Stripe for billing, a standard email provider for product updates).
Request deletion any time at hello@auris.talk.
The architecture makes most of GDPR easy. We don't process audio. We don't store transcripts. The data we do hold (email, license key) is subject to standard subject-access and deletion requests.
Email hello@auris.talk to request either.
Yes. Use the in-app History tab to view, edit, or delete entries.
No automatic crash reports. Internal diagnostics live in Settings → Diagnostics. Review them on your machine, send them to us manually if you'd like our help. Never sent without your action.
The marketing site uses a third-party form service for the launch waitlist email captures, so those emails route through that provider before reaching us. The Auris app itself routes nothing through us, ever. Different rules for the brochure than for the product.
The how-it-works page walks through the loop and the polish controls. The pricing page covers the tiers.