YOUR DATA

Privacy & data use

Read the agreement shown during account setup. Updated September 25, 2026.

Who Speak Exactly is for

Speak Exactly is designed for college-level learning and personal speaking practice. It is not offered to children under 13. Do not create an account or use Speak Exactly if you are under 13. A professor or institution may set additional rules for a course.

What you provide and what Speak Exactly creates

Speak Exactly stores account details, your legal and preferred names, course enrollments, uploaded documents and recordings, written and spoken responses, transcripts, generated questions and feedback, practice history, and progress information when those features are used. Some independent practice saves your work and progress automatically; saving a rehearsal recording is a separate choice. Your professor may also provide course materials, assignments, grades or checkpoint observations.

How AI is used

Speak Exactly sends the material needed for an AI feature to OpenAI through Speak Exactly’s API connection. This may include your topic, document text, speech script, audio or transcript, responses, and relevant course source excerpts. OpenAI returns questions, transcription, guidance, drafts, or feedback. Speak Exactly may store those results in your account. OpenAI states that API data is not used to train its models by default unless the API customer opts in. OpenAI may retain limited data for abuse monitoring or legal reasons under its current policies. Speak Exactly cannot promise that any online AI service has zero retention or risk.

Who can see coursework and practice

Your professor and authorized course staff can see work you submit for their course, including the responses, feedback, and recordings made available by that activity. Your independent practice and private Study Studio are not automatically shared with your professors. Authorized Speak Exactly operators and service providers may access information needed to operate, secure, and support the service. Other students do not gain access to your private work merely because they share a class.

Voice setup, recordings, and speaker matching

Before course work opens, Speak Exactly asks for three voice reference samples: reading aloud, familiar conversation, and thinking aloud. You can listen and retake them before final submission. Submitted reference samples remain saved to your account and cannot be replaced or deleted through the student interface. Contact Speak Exactly about a data-removal request. They are for comparison and learning context; they do not by themselves prove identity or misconduct. Automatic speaker matching with a separate provider is not currently active. If Speak Exactly later enables that optional provider, it will explain the provider and request a separate choice before sending a sample there. For an assigned spoken activity, the recording and its transcript may be saved and available for professor review. Independent rehearsal recordings are saved when you choose to save them.

Feedback, progress, and academic decisions

Speak Exactly can show recall, response timing, speaking habits, course completion, and evidence of demonstrated understanding over time. AI feedback can be mistaken, and speech patterns, accents, pauses, fillers, or a changed speaking style are not proof of cheating. Speak Exactly does not claim to detect AI-written work or make academic-integrity decisions. Professors are responsible for their own review and course decisions. Course completion points track completed tasks; they are separate from demonstrated understanding.

Files and sensitive work

Speak Exactly may preserve an uploaded original file for viewing or download while extracting text or audio for learning features. Only upload material you have a right to use. A syllabus, student notes, research draft, or unpublished thesis may contain confidential information or third-party rights. Check your institution’s, advisor’s, or publisher’s rules before submitting such material. Remove personal details that a learning task does not need.

Service providers, security, and retention

Speak Exactly currently uses Supabase for accounts and stored application data, Cloudflare to deliver the site, OpenAI for AI features, and an email provider for account messages. Data is transmitted to providers as needed for the feature used. Speak Exactly uses access controls and security measures, but no online service can guarantee absolute security. Account, course, file, and recording data may remain while your account or course is active and as needed for support, safety, legal obligations, or backup cycles. There is no promise of automatic deletion at the end of a semester. Ask Speak Exactly about access, correction, or removal of your information.

Choices, changes, and contact

You can turn off optional notifications and sound effects in Settings. You can choose whether to save some independent practice recordings. You may stop using an AI activity instead of submitting new material. This agreement is required to use Speak Exactly’s AI-powered learning and course features; declining it means those features will not open. If the agreement changes in a meaningful way, Speak Exactly will show a new version and ask you to read and accept it before continuing. For privacy, account, or data requests, contact [email protected].

Provider information: OpenAI API data controls ↗.