Features
Hands-free mode
Wake Infina with your voice and dictate without a key.
Hands-free mode lets you use Infina without touching your keyboard. Say a wake word and start speaking — Infina wakes up, handles your request, and goes back to sleep. It's available on Mac. This page explains exactly how your audio is handled at every step, so you always know what stays on your device and what doesn't.
The short version
While Infina is asleep, a small listener runs entirely on your device and only listens for your wake words. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. The moment you wake it, Infina captures just that one spoken request and sends that audio to our secure cloud to turn it into text — then it goes right back to sleep.
Waking Infina
While Infina is asleep, say one of these out loud to wake it:
- “Jupiter — wake Infina and give it a request”
- “Infina — wake Infina and give it a request”
- “Type — jump straight into hands-free dictation”
Use Jupiter or Infina to wake it for a command, or say type to start dictating right away.
While asleep
When you're not actively using Infina, it sits in a sleeping state. A small model runs entirely on your device and listens only for your wake words. In this state:
- The listener is not recording and not sending anything anywhere.
- Audio is processed locally and immediately discarded — only the wake words can wake it up.
- Until you say a wake word, no audio ever leaves your computer.
When you wake it
As soon as a wake word fires, Infina captures just that one spoken request — the command or sentence you say next — and sends that audio to our secure cloud to turn it into text. For commands, the text is then turned into an action.
- Only your intended request is sent — never continuous or background audio.
- Infina detects when you've finished speaking and stops capturing — it doesn't keep an open microphone.
- The audio travels to our cloud over an encrypted connection to be transcribed.
The wake and sleep cycle
Once your request is handled — or after a short period of silence — Infina returns to its sleeping, on-device-only state. The local listener takes back over, and nothing leaves your computer again until your next wake word.
A Stay awake setting controls how long Infina keeps listening after handling a request before it drifts back to sleep. If you don't say anything within that window, it returns to the on-device-only state automatically.
Your data and Privacy mode
By default, Infina keeps the text from your requests so you have a searchable history of what you've dictated. If you'd rather nothing be kept, turn on Privacy mode: no dictation or voice-action text is saved. Your spoken request still travels to our cloud to be transcribed, then the audio is discarded and the resulting text is never stored. Your stats, snippets, and dictionary are always kept.
You'll find Privacy mode in Settings → Data & privacy, and you can flip it on or off whenever you want. The trade-off: you won't have a searchable history of what you dictated.