Guide
Questions to ask
a dictation app.
Dictation software hears your voice and inputs text across all your desktop windows. Here are the core criteria to look for:
1. Is audio stored on servers?
Does the tool write your voice to server disks, or stream it exclusively in real-time memory and immediately delete it?
Meram’s Answer: Meram Cloud handles your audio in memory only and writes none of it to disk. The transcription itself is done by Groq in the United States under Groq’s own terms, so the Privacy Policy lists every provider and what each one keeps.
2. Is my voice used to train AI models?
Many free dictation tools monetize by collecting user voice data for training.
Meram’s Answer: No. We do not use your dictations to train any model, and we do not sell your data or share it for advertising.
3. Who can use it, and where is it offered?
Privacy law differs by country, and a responsible app says plainly where it is and is not offered.
Meram’s Answer: Meram is for people aged 18 and over. Meram Cloud is not offered in Turkey, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Russia, Belarus or China, and sign-in and dictation are refused from those places.
4. Where is my dictation history stored?
Are your past notes and custom dictionaries stored in an external cloud database or kept locally?
Meram’s Answer: Your history, dictionary and settings live in a local database on your own computer, not on Meram’s servers. The local history is not encrypted, and you can delete it from the app at any time.
5. Does it protect password fields?
A secure dictation tool should detect sensitive inputs and refuse to type credentials.
Meram’s Answer: Meram automatically verifies focused controls and refuses to output text into password or elevated credential fields.