It’s not sending the audio to an unknown server. It’s all local.
From the article:
The system then translates the speech and maintains the expressive qualities and volume of each speaker’s voice while running on a device, such mobile devices with an Apple M2 chip like laptops and Apple Vision Pro. (The team avoided using cloud computing because of the privacy concerns with voice cloning.)
It’s not sending the audio to an unknown server. It’s all local. From the article: