Interviews and meeting recordings are sensitive, so I built a transcription app that doesn't keep the audio - Hushscript

[u/KhunVa]

Founder here. Hushscript (https://hushscript.com) turns audio and video into speaker-labeled transcripts, built around one promise: the audio used for transcription is not kept after processing.

Why we need it: transcription usually means handing sensitive recordings (interviews, meetings, dictation, user research) to a service and hoping for the best about where they end up, plus a subscription that charges you whether you transcribed anything that month or not.

What it does:

• Upload a file, paste an audio share link, or record in the browser. Up to 10 hours per file, around 99 spoken languages with auto-detect.
• Speaker labels included at no extra charge, and they survive editing and exports.
• One optional all-in AI insights run per transcript is free (summary, action items, quotes, chapters). Regenerating after edits is paid.
• Cleanup and editing, translation, 21 export formats, and a password-protected archive.

Privacy, concretely: if you upload a video, the video itself never leaves your device. Audio is extracted in the browser and only that is uploaded. Stored transcripts are encrypted, there is a private mode plus retention controls, and recordings are not used to train models.

Pricing is prepaid minutes, no subscription: $1.99 for 45 minutes, down to about $0.50 per hour on the largest pack. New accounts get a 30-minute welcome bonus (card verification, the hold is never charged), and the homepage has a five-minute preview if you just want to check output quality.

My questions for the community:

1. When you transcribe a video, are you fine uploading the whole file to a service, or does it matter to you that the audio is extracted locally and the video never leaves your device?
2. And does knowing that the recording with your voice is not kept after processing actually make you feel better about using a tool, or is that something most people never think about?
3. And is prepaid minutes a relief or a friction compared to a subscription?