Model catalogue · Google
Diktat und Transkription
The transcription service of the Google platform turns speech into text without your own hardware having to be in place - what is affected here is dictation, client conversations and meeting recordings, that is, the most sensitive data category of all; quality depends substantially on the recording. Via Google Vertex AI the chain is closed: the same service-bound confidentiality agreement under section 203 of the German Criminal Code that applies to the platform's language models covers this service too, with the chain obligation under section 203(4) ahead of it. What the contract does not answer is the second question of every recording: it captures everyone present - consent and instruction have to be settled before first use.
The confidentiality agreement under section 203 of the German Criminal Code is signed. We set the route up without storage at the provider (zero retention) once the provider has committed to it - at Microsoft through the exception from abuse monitoring, which usually takes months. Until then, storage and review by the provider are not ruled out.
What it is good for
- Managed transcription through the platform's EU endpoint, without your own hardware
- Processing committed to the EU; the current tier callable through the EU multi-region
- Covered by the same service-bound section 203 agreement as the platform's language models
Where it stops
- The previous tier is listed only through a single EU region and without an EU multi-region marker - there the choice of region alone decides the processing jurisdiction
- Whether the logging exception approved for our project, which applies to Gemini and Claude, also covers the speech services has to be settled in writing; while that is open, the standard regime with up to 90 days applies
- Per the vendor documentation, abuse monitoring logs are not encrypted with customer-managed keys
- A recording captures everyone present - the consent and instruction question has to be settled before first use, not after
Status through us
The same model, procured differently, is a different legal position. The status above refers to procurement through us; processing takes place in a third country.
Which route carries it, with which instrument and under which condition, we set out in full to the firm before it commissions us - section 203(4) requires that the chain can be checked, not that it is published. The full matrix, with the sources behind every route, can be requested in the German catalogue after confirming your e-mail address, and we go through it in the conversation.
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