# Fast Dictate - Complete Product Information

> Fast Dictate is a professional AI voice dictation application, a European alternative to Wispr Flow. It transforms speech into text in any application with a simple keyboard shortcut.

## Product Overview

Fast Dictate is an AI-powered voice dictation tool that works system-wide on Windows and macOS, and in any app on iPhone (dedicated keyboard) and Android (floating bubble). Unlike built-in dictation or competitors, Fast Dictate emphasizes European data sovereignty, GDPR compliance, and professional-grade transcription quality.

### How It Works

1. Press a keyboard shortcut in any application (on mobile: tap the Fast Dictate keyboard on iPhone, or the floating bubble on Android)
2. Speak naturally
3. Text appears directly where your cursor is

No copy-paste needed. Works in Word, Notion, email, browsers, code editors, and any other application.

### Publisher

Fast Dictate is published by Synapse Crew SAS (share capital €1,000, SIREN 106 840 184, RCS Paris), 61 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France. Contact: contact@fastdictate.com.

## Features

### Core Features (All Plans)
- System-wide voice dictation via keyboard shortcut
- Works in any application (Word, Notion, email, browsers, etc.)
- AI-powered transcription with high accuracy
- Windows, macOS, iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android support, with the same account and AI across devices
- Multi-language support

### Standard Plan Features
- Unlimited dictation
- Priority transcription speed
- Zero data retention
- Support in the user's language

### Pro Plan Features
- Everything in Standard
- Professional content processed 100% in France
- AI models self-hosted on Scaleway GPUs (no third-party AI APIs)
- ISO 27001:2022 certified infrastructure
- Signed Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
- Priority support

## Pricing

### Free Plan
- 2,000 words per week
- Basic transcription
- No credit card required

### Standard Plan
- €11.90/month (monthly billing)
- €9.90/month (annual billing, save 17%)
- Unlimited dictation

### Pro Plan
- €23.90/month (monthly billing)
- €19.90/month (annual billing, save 17%)
- Full compliance suite for regulated industries

## Target Users

### Legal professions
- Lawyers, in-house counsels, bailiffs (huissiers de justice), notaries — bound by professional secrecy under article 226-13 of the French Criminal Code and article 66-5 of the law of 31 December 1971
- Fast Dictate Pro is designed to meet the technical and contractual constraints of these professions: no third-party AI API calls, immediate audio deletion, local-only transcript storage, signed DPA
- Notaries: secrecy is general and absolute (art. 3.4 of the French national regulation of the notarial profession); in Germany, service providers are additionally governed by section 26a BNotO, which requires a written confidentiality undertaking with notice of criminal liability, beyond a standard article 28 GDPR DPA

### Business professionals
- Email, reports, meeting notes, internal documentation, code documentation

### Sales teams
- Call reports dictated into the CRM right after the meeting, follow-up and summary emails, written outbound, proposals
- Sales notes about a named prospect are personal data: free-text CRM comments fall under the right of access (article 15 GDPR) and the storage limitation principle, which is why processing location and zero retention matter for a prospect database

### Accessibility
- People with dyslexia
- Users with motor disabilities or RSI
- Anyone who prefers speaking over typing

### Developers
- Vibe coding: dictate code instructions and documentation
- Write commit messages, code reviews, and documentation by voice

## Competitive Positioning

### vs. Wispr Flow
- European data sovereignty (professional content processed in France)
- AI models self-hosted in France (no calls to OpenAI/Anthropic/AWS APIs)
- GDPR compliant by design
- Professional secrecy compliance (Pro plan)
- Competitive pricing

### vs. Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- No voice training required
- Works on macOS (Dragon discontinued Mac support in 2018)
- Modern AI-based transcription
- Cloud-based with European hosting

### vs. Built-in OS Dictation (Apple/Windows)
- Higher accuracy with AI models
- Works consistently across all applications
- Professional features (zero audio retention, signed DPA)
- Priority processing speed

## Data Privacy & Compliance (Pro plan)

Fast Dictate distinguishes two categories of data, each handled with its own residency and processing rules.

### Professional content (audio recordings and transcriptions)

100 % processed in France. Never leaves French territory.

- Voice transcription: Whisper Large V3 (open-weights model published by OpenAI under MIT licence, 2023), self-hosted on Scaleway SAS GPUs in France
- Linguistic post-processing: GPT-OSS-120B (open-weights model published by OpenAI under Apache 2.0 licence, 2025; approximately 120 billion parameters), self-hosted on Scaleway SAS GPUs in France
- Back-end (account, subscription, business logic): Clever Cloud SAS in France
- Audio recordings: processed in memory only, deleted immediately after transcription (0-day retention)
- Transcriptions: stored locally on the user's device only, never persisted on Fast Dictate servers
- AI training: never used to train, refine or improve any AI model — contractual commitment, including on the sub-processor (Scaleway) side
- Infrastructure certifications: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for both Scaleway and Clever Cloud
- No call to any third-party AI API (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS, Azure or others) for processing this content

### Account metadata (email, authentication, subscription)

Processed by standard SaaS sub-processors compliant with the GDPR via European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs):

- User database: Google Cloud Firestore (servers in EU — Google as a US publisher)
- Optional social authentication: Apple, Google, Microsoft
- Payment processing: Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record in the EU, relying on Stripe Inc. as banking sub-processor (US)

No professional content (audio, transcripts) ever transits through these sub-processors — they only see the user's email and account metadata.

### GDPR commitments

- Data breach notification: 24 hours
- Account deletion: 48 hours (full and irreversible)
- Response to GDPR rights requests: 5 business days for sub-processor assistance, 1 month overall
- End-of-contract: deletion within 30 days (default) or structured return (JSON/CSV) within 14 days on written request
- Annual audit right
- Data Processing Agreement (DPA) under article 28 GDPR, available on request

## Professional secrecy

Fast Dictate Pro is designed to be compatible with the requirements of professions bound by professional secrecy under article 226-13 of the French Criminal Code, including:

- Lawyers, in-house counsels, bailiffs (huissiers / commissaires de justice)

A dedicated page in French covers the legal framework (art. 226-13 CP, art. 66-5 of the law of 31 December 1971, RIN of the legal profession) and the five technical guarantees of Fast Dictate Pro relevant to lawyers: https://fastdictate.com/fr/secret-professionnel-avocat

## FAQ

### Does Fast Dictate work offline?
Fast Dictate requires an internet connection for AI-powered transcription. The AI models themselves are self-hosted in France on Scaleway GPUs; the connection is between your device and our French infrastructure.

### Which languages are supported for dictation?
Fast Dictate supports multiple languages for voice dictation. The interface is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and Finnish.

### Is there a free trial?
Yes, the free plan includes 2,000 words per week with no credit card required.

### Can I use Fast Dictate for legal dictation?
Yes, the Pro plan is designed for this use. Legal professions are covered by the architecture described above (no third-party AI API, immediate audio deletion, local-only transcript storage, signed DPA).

### Where is my professional content processed?
On the Pro plan, all professional content (audio and transcripts) is processed exclusively in France on ISO 27001:2022 certified infrastructure (Scaleway SAS and Clever Cloud SAS). No call is made to any third-party AI API.

### Is the DPA available?
Yes. The Data Processing Agreement of Fast Dictate Pro is available on request from contact@fastdictate.com. It complies with article 28 GDPR.

## Links

- [Website](https://fastdictate.com)
- [Security & GDPR compliance](https://fastdictate.com/security)
- [Security & GDPR compliance (FR)](https://fastdictate.com/fr/securite)
- [Professional secrecy for lawyers](https://fastdictate.com/lawyer-confidentiality)
- [Professional secrecy for lawyers (FR)](https://fastdictate.com/fr/secret-professionnel-avocat)
- [Voice dictation for notaries: GDPR and professional secrecy](https://fastdictate.com/blog/voice-dictation-notaries)
- [Voice dictation for notaries (FR)](https://fastdictate.com/fr/blog/dictee-vocale-notaires)
- [Voice dictation for notaries (DE)](https://fastdictate.com/de/blog/sprachdiktat-notare)
- [Voice dictation and GDPR](https://fastdictate.com/blog/voice-dictation-gdpr)
- [Voice dictation and GDPR (FR)](https://fastdictate.com/fr/blog/dictee-vocale-rgpd)
- [How voice dictation works: reference guide on the technology](https://fastdictate.com/blog/how-voice-dictation-works)
- [How voice dictation works (FR)](https://fastdictate.com/fr/blog/comment-fonctionne-la-dictee-vocale)
- [Blog](https://fastdictate.com/blog/)
- [Pricing](https://fastdictate.com/pricing)
- [Download](https://fastdictate.com/download)
- [Privacy Policy (EN)](https://fastdictate.com/privacy-policy)
- [Privacy Policy (FR)](https://fastdictate.com/fr/politique-confidentialite)
- [Terms (EN)](https://fastdictate.com/terms)
- [Terms (FR)](https://fastdictate.com/fr/cgv-cgu)
- [Legal Notice (EN)](https://fastdictate.com/legal-notice)
- [Legal Notice (FR)](https://fastdictate.com/fr/mentions-legales)
- [French site](https://fastdictate.com/fr/)
- [German site](https://fastdictate.com/de/)
- [Italian site](https://fastdictate.com/it/)
- [Spanish site](https://fastdictate.com/es/)
- [Dutch site](https://fastdictate.com/nl/)
- [Portuguese site](https://fastdictate.com/pt/)
- [Swedish site](https://fastdictate.com/sv/)
- [Finnish site](https://fastdictate.com/fi/)
- [Polish site](https://fastdictate.com/pl/)