How audio works
Your audio goes straight from your microphone to the speech engine — it never passes through Scout’s servers.- Your microphone captures audio
- Scout sends the audio stream over an encrypted connection directly to the speech engine
- The speech engine transcribes in real time and sends text back to Scout
- Scout processes the text on your machine (voice commands, dictionary, quick phrases, writing styles) and injects it at your cursor
What Scout’s server handles
- Authentication — Verifies your identity and subscription status.
- Temporary tokens — Short-lived tokens that let your app connect directly to the speech engine. Your top dictionary entries are included as recognition hints.
- Usage tracking — Session metadata (word count, duration) for billing. No audio or transcript content.
- Settings sync — Dictionary, quick phrases, and writing style preferences.
- Magic Edit — When you use Magic Edit, your selected text and instruction are sent through Scout’s server to the AI model. This only happens when you explicitly activate Magic Edit.
Context awareness
When context awareness is enabled (the default), Scout reads text from the focused text field, selected text, nearby content, and the window title. Key terms are extracted locally and sent to the speech engine as recognition hints.- Only the focused window is read — not other windows or background apps
- No raw text content is sent to Scout’s servers
- You can disable this in Settings → General
What Scout stores
| Data | Where |
|---|---|
| Account info, subscription status | Server |
| Usage metrics (word count, duration) | Server |
| Dictionary, quick phrases, writing styles | Server |
| Hotkey preferences, activity history | Local device |
What Scout does NOT store
| Data | Why not |
|---|---|
| Audio recordings | Streams directly to the speech engine, never sent to Scout |
| Transcripts | Processed locally and injected at your cursor |
| Screen content | Only reads the focused window when context awareness is on |
| Keystrokes | Only intercepts Scout’s own hotkeys |
Security
- All network traffic is encrypted in transit
- Passwords are hashed using industry-standard algorithms
- Authentication uses short-lived tokens
Account deletion
Contact support@scoutvoice.ai to delete your account. This removes your account info, preferences, usage history, and cancels your subscription immediately.Your rights
- Access — View your data in the app
- Export — Contact support@scoutvoice.ai
- Deletion — Delete your account at any time
- Opt out — Disable context awareness in Settings