Check Recording Protection

The short answer: audio is held locally while recording, sent over modern TLS for cloud transcription, processed by Groq, and discarded immediately after processing, within 1 second. If Cloud Sync is enabled, note text syncs end-to-end encrypted with a passphrase you control.

Protection has several parts: local storage, transmission, processing, deletion, and optional sync. Check each one instead of relying on one vague privacy claim.

Recording Lifecycle

1. You record on your device.
2. AICHE stores active or queued audio locally using platform storage protections.
3. When processing starts, audio is sent over modern TLS.
4. Groq transcribes the audio.
5. AICHE applies cleanup, vocabulary, translation, or other enabled processing.
6. Audio is discarded immediately after processing, within 1 second.
7. The resulting text returns to your device and stays in your history until you delete it or your retention settings remove it.

AICHE is cloud-default for transcription. Do not describe it as on-device transcription.

What to Check Before Sensitive Dictation

• Confirm you are signed into the right account.
• Check whether Cloud Sync is on or off.
• If sync is on, make sure you know the passphrase.
• Check Later queue status before and after recording.
• Delete sensitive text from History when you no longer need it.
• Avoid dictating information your workplace policy forbids sending to cloud transcription.

Cloud Sync Protection

Cloud Sync is optional. When enabled, AICHE encrypts note content before it leaves your device using AES-256-GCM with a key derived from your passphrase through Argon2id. AICHE servers hold encrypted data, not plaintext note content.

If you forget the passphrase, AICHE cannot recover synced note content for you. That is part of the zero-access design.

Audio vs Text

Audio and text have different lifecycles:

• Audio is temporary during processing and is discarded immediately after processing, within 1 second.
• Queued audio remains encrypted locally until it processes or you delete it.
• Text remains in local history until you delete it or retention settings remove it.
• Synced text is encrypted before it reaches AICHE servers when Cloud Sync is enabled.

Do This Now

Open your privacy or sync settings. Check whether Cloud Sync is enabled, confirm your passphrase storage, then open History and delete one test note so you know where that control is before you need it.