Privilege protected by architecture, not by contract
Attorney-client privilege is absolute. Any dictation tool that transmits voice data to external servers creates a potential privilege waiver. Yaps processes dictation entirely on your Mac. No audio leaves the device. No text is transmitted. The privilege is maintained by design.
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Dictate legal documents confidently
Attorney-client privilege maintained by architecture. No word leaves your Mac.
2026-CV-04817
Greenfield Holdings Acquisition
Purchase Agreement — Section 12
Draft — Privileged
How Yaps protects privilege
Cloud tools transmit privileged communications to third-party servers. Yaps processes everything on your Mac — no transmission, no privilege waiver risk.
The privilege problem with cloud dictation
How Yaps eliminates the risk
Built for legal confidentiality
Six capabilities that make Yaps the dictation tool law firms can actually approve.
Zero Data Transmission
All speech recognition runs on your Mac. No audio recordings, no transcribed text, and no metadata are sent to any external server. There is no cloud component in the dictation pipeline. Your privileged communications exist only on hardware you control.
No BAA or DPA Needed
Because Yaps never transmits or stores your data on third-party infrastructure, there is no Business Associate Agreement or Data Processing Agreement to negotiate. No vendor security questionnaire. No data handling addendum. The architecture makes them unnecessary.
Offline Everywhere
Dictate in courthouses, on flights to depositions, in client meetings, or in secure facilities with restricted internet access. Yaps works identically whether you are online or offline — because it never uses the network for dictation.
High-Speed Dictation
Speak your briefs, contracts, and memos at natural pace. Yaps transcribes in real time on Apple Silicon, delivering words as you speak them. First drafts that would take an hour of typing are done in twenty minutes of dictation.
TTS Contract Review
Have Yaps read back your contracts, briefs, or memos with natural text-to-speech. Choose from 8 offline voices or 10 cloud voices. Hearing your document read aloud catches ambiguities, inconsistencies, and errors that silent reading misses.
Searchable Dictation History
Every dictation is saved locally in Smart History — fully searchable across all your sessions. Find that key phrase from a client call, a case note detail, or a contract clause you dictated weeks ago. All stored on-device, never synced to any server.
Privileged work, dictated safely
How attorneys, paralegals, and legal teams use Yaps for confidential document production.
Legal Briefs & Motions
Dictate your statement of facts, legal analysis, and argument sections by voice. Many attorneys find their arguments are more persuasive when spoken first and edited second. Export as WAV for reference or SRT for timestamped records.
The plaintiff's motion for summary judgment should be granted. The undisputed material facts establish that defendant breached Section 7.3 of the Agreement by disclosing confidential information to...
”Contract Drafting
Dictate contract provisions, redline commentary, and amendment language at speaking speed. Build first drafts of engagement letters, NDAs, and purchase agreements without typing a word.
Section 12, Confidentiality. Each party agrees to hold in strict confidence all Confidential Information received from the other party. New paragraph. For purposes of this Agreement, Confidential Information means...
”Case Notes & File Memos
Immediately after client calls, witness interviews, or strategy sessions, dictate your observations while details are fresh. Time-stamped and searchable in Smart History.
Memo to file. Client meeting, March 6, 2026. Re: potential acquisition of Greenfield Holdings. Client confirmed board approval for offers up to...
”Deposition Summaries
Dictate deposition summaries and witness assessments right after the session. Capture credibility observations, follow-up questions, and key admissions while your impressions are sharpest.
Post-deposition summary: witness was credible on the timeline of events but evasive regarding the contents of the February board meeting. Key admission at approximately 2:40 PM regarding...
”Client Correspondence
Draft client advisory letters, status updates, and demand letters by dictation. Speaking your correspondence produces a more natural, authoritative tone — and keeps privileged content off third-party servers.
Dear Ms. Chen, I am writing to update you on the status of the litigation. Following the court's ruling on the motion to compel, we have received the outstanding discovery responses and...
”Compliance Documentation
Dictate internal compliance reports, regulatory filings, and audit documentation. For firms subject to SEC, FINRA, or state bar data handling requirements, on-device processing eliminates the vendor compliance layer entirely.
Hear from people like you.
“I spent months trying to get our IT department to approve a cloud dictation tool. They kept rejecting it because of the data transmission — privileged client communications going to a third-party server was a non-starter. Yaps was approved in a single meeting. The architecture eliminates the risk entirely. Nothing leaves my MacBook. I am drafting briefs and case memos three times faster, and our compliance team has zero concerns.”
Katherine Liang
Litigation Partner, AmLaw 200 Firm
Further reading on legal dictation
Privilege maintained. By design.
Dictate briefs, contracts, and case notes with zero data exposure. Your voice never leaves your Mac.
Requires macOS 13.0+ (Apple Silicon recommended)