Terms and license
The agreement between you and us for using SpeedOfTalk. In plain terms: buy it once, use it on your Macs, don't share your key.
Last updated 17 October 2026
1. Who this agreement is with
These terms are between you and SpeedOfTalk ("we", "us"). By installing or using SpeedOfTalk you agree to them. If you're accepting them for an organization, you confirm you're allowed to.
2. Your license
When you buy SpeedOfTalk, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use version 1 of SpeedOfTalk (all 1.x releases) on up to three Macs that you own or control at a time, for your own use. A license is for one person; an organization needs one license per person who uses it, or a team license. Each Mac is activated once, online; you can free a Mac's place by removing the license from it, or by asking us. We may disable a key that has been shared publicly or refunded.
SpeedOfTalk is licensed, not sold. We keep all rights we don't expressly give you.
3. Free trial
You can use SpeedOfTalk free for 7 days to evaluate it. After that, using it requires a license key.
4. What you may not do
- Share, publish, sell or transfer your license key, or use someone else's.
- Remove, disable or work around the license or trial checks.
- Redistribute, rent or resell SpeedOfTalk, or modify it, except where the law gives you a right to do so that can't be excluded.
- Use SpeedOfTalk to break the law or to record people without the consent the law requires.
5. Buying
Orders are processed by Paddle, which sells SpeedOfTalk to you as our reseller and merchant of record. Paddle's buyer terms apply to the payment itself. Prices include or add sales tax as shown at checkout.
6. Refunds
See our refund policy. In short: within 14 days, for any reason.
7. Updates and compatibility
Your license includes every update to version 1. If we release a version 2, upgrading may cost extra; version 1 keeps working on the systems it supports.
SpeedOfTalk depends on macOS features that Apple controls, including Accessibility, the microphone, the Neural Engine and Apple Intelligence. We work to keep SpeedOfTalk compatible with new macOS releases, but we can't promise that a future change by Apple won't limit or break a feature. If that happens, contact us; see the refund policy for what we'll do.
8. Your content
What you dictate is yours. SpeedOfTalk processes it on your Mac and we never receive it (see the privacy policy).
9. Open-source components
SpeedOfTalk includes or downloads third-party components under their own licenses, including the NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 speech model by NVIDIA (CC BY 4.0), in the Core ML conversion published by FluidInference (CC BY 4.0), and the FluidAudio library by FluidInference (Apache License 2.0). Those licenses apply to those components.
10. Disclaimer
Speech recognition and automatic cleanup aren't perfect. Check important text before you send it. Except as stated in these terms and to the extent the law allows, SpeedOfTalk is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose.
If you're a consumer, you have legal rights that these terms don't affect, for example in the EU and UK the right to digital content that's as described and of satisfactory quality.
11. Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for lost data, profits or business, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid for SpeedOfTalk. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
12. Ending this agreement
You can stop using SpeedOfTalk at any time. If you seriously break these terms, your license ends and you must stop using SpeedOfTalk.
13. Law
If you're a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and can bring a claim there.
14. Changes and contact
We may update these terms for new versions; the version that applied when you bought keeps applying to your purchase. Questions: use the contact form.
Notices. We deal with notices electronically. Send us any notice, including a legal notice, through the contact form (choose "Legal notice"); it reaches us in writing and we keep a record of it. We send notices to you by email, at the address you gave when you bought.