Privacy policy.

The short version: your recordings and your transcripts are processed on your own computer and are never sent to us or to anyone else. The only data that leaves your browser relates to advertising and page analytics, and in the EEA, UK and Switzerland that happens only after you have given consent.

Who we are

FreeTranscribe (free-transcribe.com) is an independent website. You can reach us at hello@free-transcribe.com.

Your files and transcripts

When you choose an audio or video file, it is read by the browser on your device. Decoding and speech recognition run locally, using WebGPU and a model downloaded into your browser cache. No part of the file, its name, its metadata or the resulting transcript is transmitted to our servers or to any third party. We could not read your recording even if we wanted to.

The transcript exists only in the browser tab until you copy or download it. Closing the tab discards it. If the tool offers to resume an interrupted transcription, that progress is stored in your browser's local storage on your device and nowhere else.

Model files

The first time you transcribe, your browser downloads the speech model from our content delivery network and stores it in its cache so later visits are faster. That download is an ordinary web request: our hosting provider (Cloudflare) sees your IP address and the file requested, as it does for any page on this site. You can remove the cached model at any time from the tool page or by clearing site data in your browser.

Advertising

The site is funded by advertising served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads, to measure them and, where you have consented, to personalise them based on your visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies is described at policies.google.com/technologies/ads. You can opt out of personalised advertising at google.com/settings/ads or at aboutads.info/choices.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we ask for your consent through a Google-certified consent management platform before any advertising cookies are set. You can change your choice at any time using the privacy settings link in the footer.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to count visits and to learn which pages lead people to a completed transcription. IP addresses are anonymised. The analytics events we record never include file names, transcript content or anything derived from your recording. Where consent is required, analytics run only after you have agreed.

What we do not collect

• No account, no email address, no name, unless you write to us.
• No audio, video, file names or transcripts.
• No server-side logs of what you transcribe, because there is no server-side transcription.

Server logs

Our hosting provider keeps standard request logs (IP address, user agent, requested URL, time) for security and abuse prevention. These are retained for a short period and are not combined with any other data.

Children

The site is not directed at children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Your rights

Because we do not hold personal data about you beyond what is described above, most requests under the GDPR or similar laws will be answered by pointing you to your browser settings and to Google's controls. If you believe we hold data about you, email us and we will respond within 30 days.

Changes

We will update this page when the site changes. The date at the top tells you when it was last revised.