Privacy Policy — Read The Stupid Text

Effective date: 25 June 2026

Read The Stupid Text (“the app”) is a Windows utility that reads selected or copied text aloud. This policy explains how the app handles your data.

The short version

Read The Stupid Text does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal data. It has no accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, and makes no network connections. Everything the app does happens locally on your device.

What the app processes, and where

• Text you select, copy, or send via the hotkey is read aloud and held only in memory for as long as it takes to speak it. It is not written to disk, logged permanently, or sent anywhere.
• Speech synthesis is performed entirely on your device using a voice model bundled inside the app. No text or audio is sent to any server or third party.
• The app’s activity log (an optional diagnostic view) lives only in memory, shows recent read activity, and is cleared when the app closes. It is never saved to disk or transmitted.
• Settings you choose (reading speed, selected voice, auto-read and startup toggles) are stored locally on your device. They never leave your device.

Network use

None. The app works fully offline. It does not connect to the internet, download anything, or call any web service or API.

Permissions

The app declares the runFullTrust capability. This is required so it can place a system-tray icon, register a global hotkey, read selected/copied text from other apps (via UI Automation and the Windows clipboard), and run its on-device text-to-speech engine. This capability is not used to collect or transmit any data.

Third-party components

The app bundles open-source components (the sherpa-onnx runtime and the Supertonic voice model) that run locally and do not transmit data.

Children’s privacy

The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this same URL with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be raised by opening an issue at the GitHub repository.