Loromatic Privacy Policy · Iterative Key LLC

This Privacy Policy explains how Iterative Key LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) handles information in Loromatic (the “app”), our text-to-speech app for Android. It applies to the app only. Our website is covered by the separate website privacy policy.

Loromatic works entirely on your phone. It does not require an account, does not connect to any server, and does not request permission to use the internet. We receive no data from the app at all.

Text you have read aloud

When you choose Loromatic as your phone’s text-to-speech engine, other apps send it the text they want spoken: for example, a screen reader reads what is on your screen, or an e-book app reads a chapter. Loromatic turns that text into speech on your phone and plays it or hands the audio back to the app that asked. It does not store this text, does not keep a record of what was read, and cannot send it anywhere.

The text you type on the app’s Listen screen is treated the same way. If you choose to save what you hear as an audio file, the app writes it only to the place you pick, using Android’s file picker.

Cloning a voice

To clone a voice, you record a short reading with your phone’s microphone, or pick an existing recording from your files. The app asks you to confirm that the voice is your own or that you have the speaker’s permission.

The microphone is used only while the clone screen is recording, after you tap Start recording, and stops when you tap Stop or after about twelve seconds. Android shows its microphone indicator while it is on.
The recording is trimmed, kept in the app’s private storage as an audio file of at most ten seconds, and used only to make speech in that voice on your phone. It is never uploaded.
A voice sample can be personal or biometric information about the person speaking. Because it never leaves your phone, we never receive or process it.

Voices you import

You can import a voice model you trained, from a file you choose. The app copies the model into its private storage and reads it only to speak. It does not send the file anywhere.

Information stored on your device

The app stores the following in its private storage, which other apps cannot read:

Your voices: recordings of cloned voices, imported voice models, their names and languages.
Settings: your default voices, speech speed and quality.
Cloning engines: voice models you download for more languages (see below).

You can delete any of your voices in the app, remove downloaded engines in Settings, or clear everything by clearing the app’s storage in your phone’s Settings or uninstalling the app.

Downloading more cloning engines

The engines that clone voices in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese, and a newer English one, are downloaded only when you ask for them. Loromatic asks the Google Play Store app on your phone to download them, as it would download part of any app you installed from it; Loromatic itself does not connect to the internet. Google Play handles this under the Google Privacy Policy. We do not receive any information about these downloads. No text, recording or voice is part of the request.

App updates

When the app is installed from Google Play, it asks the Google Play Store app on your phone whether a newer version is available, and can show you a banner or Google Play’s update screen. This check happens on your phone, between the app and Google Play, under the Google Privacy Policy. We do not receive any information about these checks or about whether you install an update.

Backup and moving to a new phone

If Android backup is turned on, Android can include your settings and your own voices (cloned and imported) in your device backup, and copy them when you move to a new phone. This backup is made and stored by Android in your own Google account, under your control; we cannot access it. On Android 12 and later, the app’s data is left out of cloud backups whenever Android cannot encrypt them with your screen lock. Downloaded engines are not backed up: you can download them again on the new phone.

You can turn backup off, or delete existing backups, in your phone’s Settings (usually under Google, then Backup).

Permissions the app uses

Microphone (record audio): only to record a voice to clone, as described above. You can deny it and pick a recording instead.

The app does not request internet access, location, contacts, camera, photos, or access to other accounts. It reads a file you pick (a recording or a voice model) only through Android’s file picker, and only that file.

We do not receive any information from the app, so we have nothing to share, sell, rent, or trade. We may disclose information if required to do so by law; since the app sends us nothing, we have no information from it to disclose.

Responsible use

The voice models in the app are licensed under terms that forbid using them to impersonate people without their consent, to deceive, or to harass. Please clone only your own voice or the voice of someone who has given you permission, and never present generated speech as a real recording of someone.

Children’s privacy

The app is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The app collects no personal information from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles information, we will update this policy on this page and change the effective date above. If the changes are significant, we will also let you know in the app or in its store listing.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email us at [email protected].