Habla privacy
- Your voice never leaves this device.
- Your words never leave it.
- The only things that leave are a model download, a version check and what you type in Feedback.
Habla turns your voice into text on your own device. Your voice does not leave it, you need no account, and we do not receive what you say. This page says, with no small print, what stays with you and the few things that leave only if you decide.
Who makes it
Habla is a product of Manu Audio. For any question about your data: booking@manuaudio.com.
What stays on your device
- Your voice: recognition runs on the device, with our models or Apple's.
- Your dictations and history, your meetings, their transcripts and notes.
- The words Habla learns. To learn them it looks at what you write in the field you dictate into, never a secure field, and what it keeps is kept here.
- Your contacts' names, if you allow it, to spell them right.
- Your voice print, used to tell you apart from the other speakers in a meeting.
- What it reads from your calendars and reminders, if you allow it: used right here to offer to record a meeting and note its to-dos.
What leaves only if you decide
- ChatGPT. If you sign in with your ChatGPT account, Habla first asks you, once, whether it may send your words to ChatGPT, a service of OpenAI. Only after your yes does the text of a dictation you send with "Send to a better model", and of your meetings' notes and summaries, go to OpenAI, under your account and OpenAI's rules. Your voice never goes. Say no, or turn it off later in Settings, and nothing is sent: Habla does that work on your device. If you do not sign in, or sign out, nothing is sent either. OpenAI is the only AI service outside your device that Habla sends words to.
- iCloud. Your meetings and their notes are kept in your own iCloud while their switch is on; on the iPhone it starts on and you turn it off in Settings, Privacy. Meeting audio, your learned words and your Mac's history go to your iCloud only if you turn on their switches. On a PC, Habla reads and writes the Habla folder of your own iCloud or Google Drive; we never see it. It is your Apple account: we do not enter it.
- Ayudar a mejorar Habla (help improve Habla). Off to start. If you turn it on, each dictation sends us a trail of its steps: version, engine, languages, counts, timings and the name of the app you were writing in. Never what you said. We keep the last 200.
- Crash reports. Off to start. If you turn it on, when Habla crashes we get the reason the system gives and the top of the call stack. Never what you said.
- What you write to us. If you send a message or answer a poll, we receive that text, your email if you give it, the Habla version and the system version. We keep it as long as we need to help you.
Connections that carry nothing of yours
Habla downloads its voice models from Hugging Face, and from our server if that does not answer; on the Mac it looks for updates at manuaudio.com. A fresh Habla makes no other connection: only once you turn on one of the switches below does it check, when it opens, whether it is on our private network, the one in its maker's house; on anyone else's device that check finds nothing. As with any internet connection, those servers see your IP address; none of them carries your voice, your words or an identifier of yours.
Payments
Habla Pro is paid through your Apple account. We never see your card or your name; Apple gives us sales figures, not who bought.
No ads, no tracking
Habla has no ads, does not follow you across apps, and does not sell or share data with anyone for those purposes.
Erase everything
"Borrar todos mis datos" removes your history, words, meetings and their audio, trails, caches, your ChatGPT session and your copies in iCloud, from your other devices too. It then checks that nothing is left and tells you. Only the voice models stay, which are not your data, so Habla keeps dictating; they go when you delete the app.
If you record other people
Laws on recording conversations differ from place to place. Always tell the others before you record; Habla helps with a notice, but the decision and the responsibility are yours.
The waiting list
If you join at usehabla.com we keep your email or WhatsApp number, the date and who invited you, only to tell you when Habla is ready. We share it with no one and delete it if you ask.
Your rights
The little we hold is what you sent us: your messages and, if you turned them on, your trails and reports. You can ask to access, correct, cancel or delete it, object, or withdraw your consent at booking@manuaudio.com; turning a switch off stops the sending at once. These rights hold in Mexico, the European Union, Colombia, Argentina and wherever your law recognizes them, and you can complain to your country's data protection authority. What you turn on rests on your consent; what you write to us, on handling what you ask. Our servers are in the United States.
Children
Habla is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If this changes we will say so here with its date, and no new feature will send anything without a switch.