SpeechDone

For tax advisors

The dictation app for tax advisors on iPhone

You speak the meeting note, the client email or a follow-up question, and after you stop the cleaned-up text is in the field right away. On iPhone, iPad and Mac. Server in Germany, recognition only on EU servers, DPA in text form.

On the way back from the clientSaid

Hello Ms. Berger, your documents are complete, and I will get back to you um, Monday, no, next week with the result

ToMs. Berger

SubjectYour documents

Hello Ms. Berger, your documents are complete, and I will get back to you next week with the result.

Three situations from the working day

  1. A note after the meeting

    You dictate right after the conversation what was discussed and promised. You paste the text where it belongs. The original stays in your history next to the cleaned-up version.

  2. A client email on the move

    “Hello Ms. Berger, your documents are complete, and I will get back to you next week with the result.” You speak the email instead of typing it on a small display. You check amounts, names and deadlines yourself before you send.

  3. Follow-up questions

    While going through a receipt a question comes to mind. You speak it into the keyboard of your mail app instead of putting it off. If a client writes in German, you translate in the keyboard.

What is left over after the client call

The conversation went well, the client asked three questions, and you promised two things. On the way back it is all present, and by the next morning five new emails sit on top of it.

With SpeechDone you speak the note while it is fresh, and you do not have to talk like a printed page. A “no, wait” is no problem: SpeechDone cleans up as you pause, and after you stop the text is there, with punctuation and without the ums.

What SpeechDone does for that

What SpeechDone is not

SpeechDone is a dictation app, not practice management or accounting software. It does not manage clients, deadlines or bookkeeping. The text lands where your cursor is, and you decide what to keep.

Privacy: what happens to your dictation

You are bound by professional secrecy, and client data falls under your duty of confidentiality. So here is where your dictation goes, without gloss.

Our server runs at Hetzner in Germany. Speech recognition runs only on EU servers: Deepgram (Deepgram, Inc., USA, processing on EU servers) transcribes live, and Mistral AI (Paris) recognizes the recording once more, section by section. Both hear the same recording, and one of the two providers is a US company. Neither uses your recordings for training: we opt out with Deepgram on every request, and with Mistral it is switched off in our account.

Your recording is not stored on our server. It is only processed in memory during recognition. We keep the recognized result in a cache for up to 24 hours so that an interrupted connection is not processed twice, and delete it afterwards. By default the app keeps your history in your own iCloud.

Recognition and text processing always run in the EU. There is no switch to servers in the US, and SpeechDone does not fall back there when something is down.

You conclude the data processing agreement (DPA) under Art. 28 GDPR with us in text form: view the DPA. There is also a confidentiality undertaking under Section 203 of the German Criminal Code (StGB). Tax advisors are bound by professional secrecy; the undertaking covers us as a person assisting in your work (Section 203 (4) StGB). Every service provider that processes data is listed on the subprocessor page.

Whether that is enough for your practice is your decision. This is not legal advice: check it with your chamber of tax advisors. More on the technical side in the guide to dictation apps and GDPR.

Try it

SpeechDone is not in the App Store yet. Join the waitlist below and we will write you once when it is. Getting started is free: Free includes 1,500 words per week, and Pro costs $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year (App Store subscription).

Questions tax advisors ask

Is SpeechDone a dictation app for tax advisors?

SpeechDone is a dictation app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that you can use for meeting notes, client emails and follow-up questions. It does not replace practice or accounting software.

Where is my dictation processed?

Our server runs at Hetzner in Germany. Recognition runs only on EU servers, at Deepgram (Deepgram, Inc., USA) and Mistral AI (Paris). Your recording is not stored on our server.

Can I sign a data processing agreement with SpeechDone?

Yes. You conclude the DPA under Art. 28 GDPR with us in text form. The service providers are listed on the subprocessor page.

What does Section 203 StGB mean for using SpeechDone?

We offer a confidentiality undertaking under Section 203 of the German Criminal Code that covers us as a person assisting in your work (Section 203 (4) StGB). Whether that is enough for your practice, you settle with your chamber of tax advisors.

May I dictate client data?

The decision is yours, and we do not give legal advice. What we commit to is in the DPA: processing only in the EU and a confidentiality undertaking under § 203 of the German Criminal Code.

Does dictation work in my accounting software?

On iPhone and iPad the SpeechDone keyboard works in every app, and on the Mac you insert the text at the cursor with the fn key (macOS 15 or later). We do not offer an integration with specific practice or accounting software.

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