GDPR Audio Transcription in Europe: OVHcloud France Storage & Zero Data Retention

1. Why Free Converters and Calendar Bots Fail European DPO Audits

Organizations across Europe face two recurring compliance traps when adopting automated speech-to-text tools. First, unverified “free online Whisper” websites frequently retain uploaded recordings indefinitely or reuse voice data to train commercial models without an Article 28 GDPR Data Processing Agreement. Second, US-hosted meeting-bot assistants demand broad read access to corporate calendars and join Microsoft Teams or Zoom calls as external third-party participants — exposing confidential sessions before anyone has even reviewed the guest list.

Le Scribe Audio was engineered in France around data minimization: no calendar integration, no live bot joining your calls, and immediate user-triggered erasure once your final document is ready.

2. Factual Infrastructure Breakdown: OVHcloud France + Google Cloud Vertex AI (Europe)

We believe DPOs, bar associations, hospital IT teams, and university ethics boards deserve 100% factual precision rather than ambiguous marketing slogans:

• Primary Storage in France (OVHcloud): Your uploaded audio/video recordings (MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, Olympus/Philips .DS2/.DSS) and structured transcript segments are hosted in France on OVHcloud infrastructure and encrypted at rest using AES-256.
• 2-Pass Inference in Europe (Google Cloud Vertex AI — Zero Data Retention): Acoustic transcription and optional 1-click summarization (executive summary followed by a chrono-thematic breakdown) execute via Google Cloud Vertex AI (Europe region). Under enterprise contractual terms, processing occurs in volatile memory with Zero Data Retention — no customer audio or text is cached on disk by the inference endpoint or used to train foundation models.
• Clear Legal Disclosure on the US Cloud Act: Because Google Cloud is a US-headquartered provider, it remains legally within the scope of the US Cloud Act even when workloads are pinned to European Union regions under EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). We never claim “US-exempt AI”; instead, we pair European regional processing and Zero Data Retention with French primary storage at OVHcloud and 1-click permanent purge so sensitive recordings do not linger online.

3. Article 28 GDPR Sub-Processor & Corporate Identity Register

Corporate Governance & DPO Contact: LE SCRIBE AUDIO (EURL with share capital of €1,000, SIRET 890 049 927 00043). Statutory Managing Director (Gérante): Mme Miora HARILALANJATOVO. Administrative & DPO Inquiries: Jérémie TERRAL — Assistant de direction, LE SCRIBE AUDIO — Email: info@lescribeaudio.com · Phone: +33 9 61 44 46 64.

4. Speaker-Label Coding vs. Human Review Before Exporting to Word (.docx)

Inside our interactive player, you can globally replace speaker diarization labels in 1 click (for instance renaming Ms. Smith (28) to Participant P1 (28) or Witness A) prior to downloading your 100% editable Microsoft Word (.docx) file. Please note that speaker-label coding updates the diarization headers only — it does not automatically redact proper nouns mentioned inside spoken sentences, which should be verified during your human listening pass (2 to 3 hours per hour of audio vs 4 to 7 hours of manual typing from scratch) or entrusted to our confidential dual-transcriber human proofreading team (€60 excl. VAT/hour).