SpeakLocal — Privacy Policy & Terms

The short version

SpeakLocal has no account and no server of ours. Your conversations, transcripts, vocabulary and practice history are stored only on your device. The app makes exactly one kind of content request over the network: a one-time download of the AI model file from GitHub. After that download, conversation, feedback and review all run on the device and work with the internet switched off.

What the app stores, and where

• Conversations and settings — in an AES-256 encrypted local database on your device.
• Practice history and vocabulary — in a local database on your device.
• The AI model file (about 550 MB) — in the app's private storage.

All of it is removed when you uninstall the app. Settings → Privacy Center shows you every file and its size, and Erase all my data deletes the databases and the encryption key.

Microphone

The microphone is used only while you are speaking to the tutor or doing a pronunciation drill. Speech is turned into text by your device's own speech-recognition engine (the app requests on-device recognition where the platform supports it). The app does not record audio files and does not upload audio. Note that speech recognition is an operating-system service — how Android or iOS handles it is governed by your device maker's policy, not ours.

Network connections

Being precise, because a vague claim is worse than none:

• Model download (one time) — the app downloads the AI model file from github.com. GitHub redirects the download to its own content servers. No personal data is sent; it is an ordinary file download.
• Ads (free plan) — the Google AdMob SDK makes its own network requests to serve and measure ads. See Google's advertising policies. A Pro subscription removes all ads, and no ad request is made once Pro is active.
• Purchases — the Google Play Billing SDK talks to Google Play to process and restore purchases.
• Speech and text-to-speech — handled by your device's own engines.

Your conversations, transcripts and practice data are not part of any of these requests.

Feedback and scoring

SpeakLocal shows qualitative feedback — Good, Almost, Try again — plus one short tip. It deliberately does not show a numeric score. The app compares the words your device transcribed against what was expected; it is a practice aid, not a measurement of pronunciation accuracy and not a certified assessment.

Ads

The free plan shows a banner above the navigation bar and, occasionally, a full-screen ad after a practice session ends. Ads come from Google AdMob. The Google ad SDK may access a device advertising identifier and collect limited information (such as approximate IP-based location and ad interactions) to serve and measure ads. A Pro subscription removes both ad formats.

Purchases

Subscriptions and the one-time content pack are handled entirely by Google Play Billing. We never see your payment details; the app only learns whether a purchase is active. Purchase state is cached on your device.

Children

SpeakLocal does not knowingly collect personal information from children. It has no account system and stores everything locally.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email hill0225@gmail.com.

SpeakLocal includes Gemma 3 1B (instruction-tuned, int4), a model provided by Google.

Gemma is provided under and subject to the Gemma Terms of Use found at ai.google.dev/gemma/terms. A copy of those Terms is also shown inside the app at Settings → AI model → Model licence.

Use restrictions (Gemma Terms of Use, Section 3.2)

Section 3.2 of the Gemma Terms of Use is reproduced here, and these use restrictions are an enforceable provision of your agreement to use SpeakLocal:

3.2 Use Restrictions

You must not use any of the Gemma Services:

• for the restricted uses set forth in the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy at ai.google.dev/gemma/prohibited_use_policy ("Prohibited Use Policy"), which is hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement; or
• in violation of applicable laws and regulations.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Google reserves the right to restrict (remotely or otherwise) usage of any of the Gemma Services that Google reasonably believes are in violation of this Agreement.

Notice to subsequent users: Gemma and any Model Derivatives are subject to the use restrictions in Section 3.2 above. Google may update the Prohibited Use Policy from time to time; the version in force is the one published at the link above.

The model file distributed with SpeakLocal is unmodified.

SpeakLocal itself is provided as a language-practice tool. It is not medical, legal, financial or professional advice, and its feedback is not a certified language assessment.