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Notes from building ShoutFlow — on-device dictation, voice privacy, and pay-once software.
Why we built ShoutFlow to run entirely on your Mac
Modern Apple Silicon can transcribe and rewrite your speech faster than a round-trip to someone else's server. Here's the architecture behind ShoutFlow's local mode — and why 'private by architecture' beats 'private by policy'.
READ POST →Cloud vs local dictation: where does your voice actually go?
A plain-English map of the data path behind every dictation app — what leaves your machine, who can hear it, and the questions to ask before you install one.
READ POST →BYOK explained: what "bring your own key" means for dictation
BYOK lets you plug your own OpenAI, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Gemini, Kimi or xAI API key into ShoutFlow — frontier-model clean-up, billed at cost, with no middleman in your data path.
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