Privacy Policy

This policy explains what Speecher.org collects, where the text you type goes, and which third parties are involved. We keep it short and specific: you never need an account, and we do not build profiles of you ourselves.

What we store on your device

Speecher.org runs in your browser. Your recent phrases, chosen voice, theme and similar preferences are saved in your browser's localStorage — that is, on your own device. They never leave it unless you explicitly share a link. You can clear this data at any time from the History tab or by clearing your browser storage.

What you type and say, and where it goes

To turn text into speech, your text has to reach whichever voice you picked. What happens depends on that choice:

  • Browser voices (marked Local) are synthesised by your own device. The text stays on your computer and never reaches us.
  • Server-side voices pass through our server to a third-party speech-synthesis provider that generates the audio. Your text is forwarded for the moment needed to synthesise the audio and is not stored in our own database.
  • Dictionary, translation and transcription features send only the individual word or short phrase you clicked or selected — to third-party dictionary, translation and language-processing services. Results are cached on our server so the same word is not requested twice.
  • Voice typing (Speech-to-Text) is transcribed in one of three places, depending on your browser and the language. Your browser's own engine may do it — in Chrome and Edge that means the audio is processed by the browser vendor. A speech model may run inside your browser, in which case nothing is uploaded at all. Or speech-recognition software running on our own server may do it, in which case the recording is sent to us, transcribed, and not stored.
  • Reading aloud records your voice while you read the passage on the page and sends the recording to our own server, where our speech-recognition software writes down what was said so it can be compared with the text in front of you. The recording is used for that comparison and is not stored by us. A copy stays in your browser tab while the page is open, so that you can play back how you read a particular word; closing or leaving the page discards it.

We do not require, request or store your name, email address or any account for any of this.

Advertising

Speecher.org is free and is funded by advertising. We use Google AdSense, and Google — as a third-party vendor — uses cookies and similar identifiers to serve and measure ads. Google may use these to show ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites.

  • You can read how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
  • You can turn off personalised advertising in Google Ad Settings, or opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies at aboutads.info/choices.
  • If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we ask for your consent before advertising cookies are used. The consent message is provided by Google Funding Choices, a Google-certified consent management platform, and you can change or withdraw your choice at any time via the privacy settings link it displays on this site.

Advertising partners receive data through your browser (such as your IP address, device and browser type, and the page you are on) under their own privacy policies. We do not sell your personal information.

Anonymous usage analytics

We record aggregate, non-identifying events to understand which TTS languages and voices are used, how much audio is played per day, and which countries our visitors come from. The data we keep is limited to: a per-tab session identifier kept only in your browser's sessionStorage (cleared when you close the tab), the event type and timestamp, the TTS language and voice used, audio duration, your country (ISO-2 code, resolved server-side from your IP — the IP itself is never stored), the referring domain, UTM tags from your URL, and the page you visited. Our own analytics use no cookies and store no IP addresses, and raw events are deleted after 90 days; only aggregate daily totals are kept longer. A third-party analytics service is also used for visitor counting; it may set its own cookies and records what is done on the page during a visit, all under its own privacy policy.

If you contact us

When you send the contact form, the name, email address and message you provide are sent to us directly so we can reply. We keep them only as long as needed to handle your enquiry, and we do not add your address to any mailing list. The form is protected by a simple spam check and a short-term per-network rate limit.

Your choices

  • Clear your history and preferences at any time from the History tab or your browser settings.
  • Use a Local browser voice if you would rather your text never left your device.
  • Manage or withdraw advertising consent from the consent settings on this site, and personalisation from Google Ad Settings.
  • Ask us what we hold about you, or ask for it to be deleted, using the contact form.

Children

Speecher.org is a general-audience learning tool and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes

If this policy changes we will update the date below. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Contact

Privacy questions? Use the contact form.

Last updated: September 2026.

Dictation practice

When you press Check in the dictation section, what you typed is kept on our server together with the language, the passage it belongs to and the strictness setting you chose. We keep it for one reason: to read back later — by hand or with a language model — whether our marking was right. Two faults reported by a reader in 2026 had been miscounting words in every published passage for a long time, and nothing but a reader's letter would have found them.

Nothing in that record identifies you. No IP address, no cookie, no session or account, not even a per-day token: your attempt is stored on its own, with nothing to attach it to you or to your other attempts. Records are deleted after a month.

If you would rather nothing you type in that box were kept, do not press Check — the audio, the passage and the writing box all work without it. You can also write to us at [email protected].

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