What Veena does and does not do with your voice

Veena exists because dictation tools that upload your audio are a bad fit for real life. This page explains, in plain words, what happens to your data. The short version: it stays with you.

What leaves your device

Almost nothing. When you set the app up for the first time, Veena downloads a speech model from our servers. That download contains no personal data; it is a fixed file, the same for everyone, and it happens once per model. After that, transcription needs no network at all.

What stays on your device

Everything else. Your recordings and transcripts are stored in the app's local database on your phone or computer. Nothing is synced, backed up to our servers, or shared. Delete an entry in the history and it is gone.

What we do not have

• No account. There is nothing to sign up for.
• No analytics or telemetry in the apps.
• No ads and no third-party trackers.
• No audio uploads. The recognition engine runs locally, so the audio never has to leave the device for transcription.

Permissions

The mobile apps ask for microphone access, because recording your voice is the job. On Android the app also holds the network permission, which it uses only to fetch the speech model on first setup. The Windows app uses the microphone for recording and can paste your transcript into another application.

The app stores

Google Play and the App Store handle their own installation and payment data under their own policies; Veena never sees it. Veena itself collects no data, which matches the "no data collected" declaration in its Play Store and App Store listings.

Questions

Write to [email protected] and a human answers.