Privacy
Voco — last updated August 30, 2026 · back to voco.talk
The words you highlight never leave your computer. Voco turns them into speech on the machine in front of you. There is no server that could read them, because since version 1.60 there is no cloud voice at all.
Why that is true, not just a promise
Voco's voices are produced by a speech model that is downloaded to your machine
on first launch and runs there. When you press play, the text goes to a process on
127.0.0.1 — your own computer, talking to itself — and audio comes back.
Nothing about that path touches the internet. Turn your Wi-Fi off after the first
launch and Voco keeps reading.
Earlier versions did offer optional cloud voices and AI summaries, which sent the selected text to a server. Those features were removed in 1.60.0 and the code that talked to them was deleted along with them.
Everything Voco does send — the complete list
Three requests, and this is all of them:
| When | What goes out | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Periodically, and when you click “Check for updates” | GET voco.talk/api/version — carries nothing about you |
To find out whether a newer version exists |
| Once, the very first time Voco runs on a computer | A machine identifier — the Windows MachineGuid or macOS hardware UUID — and nothing else | So the welcome screen appears once per computer rather than once per reinstall |
| Only when you accept an update | A download request for the new installer | To install it |
Separately, on first launch only, the voice model itself (about 300 MB) is downloaded from Hugging Face, the public model host. That request contains no information about you and never happens again.
What Voco does not do
• No account, no sign-in, no email address, no password.
• No payment details — there is nothing to pay for.
• No advertising, no ad identifiers, no third-party trackers, no analytics SDK.
• No sending, storing or logging of the text you read, anywhere, ever.
• No selling or sharing of anything with anyone. There is nothing to sell.
• No reading of your files, your clipboard history, or your browsing history.
The text Voco touches while it works
To read a selection, Voco has to obtain it. On Windows it does this through the standard accessibility interface, and where an app doesn't support that, by briefly using the clipboard and then putting your original clipboard contents back. On macOS it uses the Accessibility permission you grant on first use. In both cases the text is held in memory only for as long as it takes to speak it, and is written to disk only if you ask for an MP3.
Your listening stats
The Stats tab counts how much you have listened to. Those counts live in a file in
Voco's own folder on your computer (%APPDATA%\Voco on Windows,
~/Library/Application Support/Voco on macOS) and are never uploaded.
Delete the file and they are gone.
MP3s you save
When you click MP3, the file is written to the folder you chose in Settings — your Downloads folder unless you changed it. It is created on your machine from audio that was already on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to produce it.
The contact form
The form at the bottom of the homepage is the one place on this site that takes anything from you, and only what you type into it: your message, plus a name and an email address if you choose to give them — both are optional, and a message without them still arrives. Your country code and the hour of the request are recorded alongside it, the first because the hosting layer supplies it and the second to stop one machine flooding the form.
Messages are stored in Voco's own database and read by one person. They are not forwarded to a mailing list, a CRM, or any third-party service, and they are never used to market anything at you — there is nothing to market. Each message is deleted automatically after 180 days. If you'd like yours removed sooner, say so at admin@voco.talk and it will be.
If you'd rather not use the form at all, the address is right there next to it — write from your own mail client and nothing touches this site.
This website
voco.talk is served from Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes the requests needed to deliver a page. The site keeps simple aggregate counters — how many Windows downloads happened on a given day, for instance — that are not tied to a person and cannot be traced back to one. There are no cookies used for tracking, no advertising pixels, and no third-party analytics scripts on this site.
Children
Voco is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this ever changes — and the only reason it would is a new feature that genuinely needs a server — the change will be described here, dated, and mentioned in the app's release notes before it ships. It will never be made quietly.
Contact
Questions, or something here that doesn't match what you observe? admin@voco.talk — a person reads every email.