This policy explains what happens to your data when you use ttsmaker.app (“ttsmaker”, “we”, “us”). For a shorter, question-by-question version, see privacy and data in Help.
The site is run by the ttsmaker team, which also makes the free TTSReader app for iPhone. Contact: support@ttsmaker.app.
What we collect
- No account data. There is no sign-up, so we never ask for your name, email address or a password.
- The content you submit. Text you convert and audio you transcribe are processed only to give you the result, as shown in the table below. We do not store them.
- Your IP address. We use it to apply rate limits and to count your free cloud transcription minutes. The counter is kept until 00:00 UTC and then reset.
- Error logs. Our server logs record the type of an error, not the text or audio that caused it. Like most server logs, they may also include technical request data such as your IP address and browser type.
- Analytics. We count visits with Umami, an open-source analytics tool that runs on our own server; its script and data are sent through this site (ttsmaker.app). It records the page, the referring site, the browser, operating system and device type, and the approximate location worked out from your IP address. It does not use cookies, does not store your IP address and does not follow you to other sites. We may also count actions on the page, such as a finished download or transcription or a click on the App Store button, without any of your text or audio. The statistics are kept until we delete them.
- Cookies. We set no cookies. The site only remembers your light or dark theme in your browser’s local storage.
What happens in each mode
| Mode | Where the work is done | Content that leaves your device | Who processes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text to speech, cloud voices | Our server and a speech synthesis service | The text you convert | Cloudflare and a third-party speech synthesis service |
| Text to speech, browser voices | Your device (the voice model downloads once) | None | Nobody else |
| Transcription, cloud | Our server and Cloudflare Workers AI | Pieces of audio, 16 kHz mono, up to 30 seconds each | Cloudflare |
| Transcription, browser | Your device | None | Nobody else |
| Dictation in Chrome, Edge or Safari | The browser’s built-in speech recognition | Microphone audio, handled by the browser | In Chrome, Google; for Edge and Safari, see the browser maker’s privacy policy |
| Dictation in Firefox | Whisper in the cloud, or in your browser | Short recorded pieces of your speech (cloud mode only) | Cloudflare, or nobody else in browser mode |
With cloud voices, the audio comes back from the speech service to your browser. With cloud transcription, only the text comes back. When your free cloud minutes for the day run out, or the cloud is unavailable, the rest of the file is transcribed in your browser and no more audio is sent.
Dictation in Chrome relies on Chrome’s own speech recognition, which sends your voice to Google’s service. That is a feature of the browser, not of our server, and Google’s privacy terms cover it. In Firefox, the tool records short pieces between pauses and transcribes them with Whisper.
What we keep, and for how long
- Your text, audio, MP3 files and transcripts: not saved on our servers. Our API responses carry a no-store header, which tells browsers and caches not to keep a copy. A result stays with you only if you download or copy it.
- IP address counters: until 00:00 UTC on the same day.
- Error logs: error types only, without content, kept by Cloudflare for up to 7 days.
Who receives data
We pass data only to the services that do the work you ask for:
- Cloudflare, Inc. hosts the site and our server on Cloudflare Workers, and runs cloud transcription on Cloudflare Workers AI.
- A third-party speech synthesis service turns your text into audio when you pick a cloud voice. It receives the text you convert.
- Our analytics server (Umami) receives the visit data described above, without cookies and without storing your IP address.
- Google receives microphone audio only when you dictate in Chrome, through the browser’s own speech recognition.
- jsDelivr (cdn.jsdelivr.net) and Hugging Face (huggingface.co) serve the model files, together with this site itself, the first time you use a browser voice or browser transcription. These downloads contain no text or audio, but like any web server they see your IP address.
These services may process data in countries other than your own. We do not sell personal information and do not share it for advertising.
Legal basis
If you are in the European Economic Area or the UK, we process the content you submit because you ask us to produce a result from it, and we process your IP address for our legitimate interest in keeping a free service safe from abuse.
Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have the right to access your personal data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. You can also complain to the data protection authority in your country.
Under the CCPA, California residents have the right to know what personal information is collected and how it is used and shared, to delete or correct it, to opt out of its sale or sharing, and not to be treated differently for using these rights.
Because there are no accounts and no stored content, we usually hold nothing that we can link to you. The IP address counters reset every day at 00:00 UTC. To make a request, write to support@ttsmaker.app.
Changes to this policy
If we change how data is handled, we will update this page and the date at the bottom. The rules for using the site are in the terms of use, and who runs ttsmaker is explained on the about page.
Contact
Email: support@ttsmaker.app.