Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a legal agreement between you and LiberaVoice LLC, an Ohio limited liability company ("LiberaVoice," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your access to and use of SpeechBuddy — including the website at speechbuddy.liberavoice.ai (and speechbuddy.fly.dev), any successor domain, and any associated web, mobile, and API surfaces (collectively, the "Service").

1. Acceptance

By creating an account, clicking "I agree," or otherwise accessing the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated here by reference. If you don't agree with any part of these Terms, do not use the Service.

2. What the Service is

SpeechBuddy helps people whose spoken speech is hard for strangers to understand — because of Down syndrome, dysarthria, aphasia, apraxia, verbal autism, ALS, or any other cause — communicate more effectively. It does this by:

• Listening to what a person tries to say, comparing it against a library of phrases the caregiver has curated, and speaking the matched phrase aloud in a chosen voice;
• Assembling sentences from tapped or spoken word tiles;
• Suggesting next phrases, categories, and library additions based on usage patterns;
• Optionally training a per-user voice model to improve match accuracy for that specific person's voice.

Not a medical device

SpeechBuddy is a general-purpose communication support tool. It is not a medical device. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition. It is not a replacement for professional speech-language pathology, and its outputs should not be relied upon for medical, legal, financial, or other critical decisions without independent verification.

3. Eligibility & account holders

To create a SpeechBuddy account, you must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into a binding contract. By creating an account, you represent that you are either:

• the person who will use the Service to communicate, or
• the parent or legal guardian of the person who will use it, or
• an adult caregiver acting with the user's or their guardian's consent.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us at Speechbuddy33@gmail.com as soon as you suspect any unauthorized use.

4. Acceptable use

You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and only for its intended communication-support use. You will not:

• Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or circumvent any security or access controls;
• Use the Service to harass, threaten, defame, or impersonate any person;
• Upload voice recordings of anyone without their consent (or their parent's / guardian's consent, if applicable);
• Use the Service to send spam, distribute malware, or interfere with any other user's use of the Service;
• Copy, resell, sublicense, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service without our written permission;
• Scrape or automate large-scale extraction of Service content;
• Use the Service to violate any applicable law or third-party right.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules, with or without notice, at our sole discretion.

5. Content ownership

You retain ownership of everything you put into SpeechBuddy: the phrases you save, the voice recordings you record, the caregiver notes you write, and any other user content ("Your Content").

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, display, and process Your Content solely for the purpose of operating and improving the Service for you. This license ends when you delete Your Content or your account.

We may use fully de-identified, aggregated statistics derived from Your Content — such as "the median session had 4 utterances" — to improve the Service and communicate about it publicly. We will not use identifiable voice recordings for aggregate improvement without your explicit opt-in via Settings → "Help SpeechBuddy learn."

6. Service providers

We use third-party service providers — including Anthropic (AI inference), ElevenLabs (text-to-speech), Fly.io (hosting), and a transactional email provider — to operate the Service. See our Privacy Policy for details on what each one receives.

Each provider is bound by its own terms with us. Our use of these providers does not create any direct relationship between you and them. We are responsible for the Service as a whole; they are not parties to this agreement.

7. Fees, billing, and beta

During the current closed beta, the Service is provided free of charge. We reserve the right to introduce paid tiers or subscriptions in the future.

If we do, we'll give you clear notice in-app and by email before any charge is applied to your account. You'll have the option to either accept the paid terms, continue on any free tier we make available, or delete your account without penalty.

Beta access is offered at our discretion and may be revoked at any time. Beta versions may contain bugs, may be updated or discontinued without notice, and may not include all features of a future paid release.

8. Feedback

If you send us feedback, feature requests, bug reports, or suggestions, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them without obligation to you.

9. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, LiberaVoice disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including — but not limited to — implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

We do not warrant that:

• Every voice utterance will be transcribed correctly, matched to the intended phrase, or spoken back accurately;
• AI-generated suggestions will be appropriate for every user or every context;
• The Service will be available at any specific time or uninterrupted;
• Any voice model or personalization will achieve any specific accuracy target.

You acknowledge that communication assistance is inherently imperfect, and that critical or safety-sensitive communications should be verified through other channels.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will LiberaVoice, its members, officers, employees, or contractors be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your use of the Service — including but not limited to damages for lost communication opportunities, emotional distress, or reputational harm — even if we've been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our aggregate liability to you for any and all claims arising out of or related to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless LiberaVoice against any claims, damages, losses, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your misuse of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any third-party right.

12. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time via Settings → Danger Zone → Delete account. On deletion, we purge your account data as described in the Data Retention Statement.

We may suspend or terminate your access at any time if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms or if we discontinue the Service. If we discontinue the Service entirely, we'll give at least 30 days' notice by email and make an export of Your Content available on request.

Sections 5 (Content ownership), 8 (Feedback), 9 (Disclaimers), 10 (Limitation of liability), 11 (Indemnification), 13 (Governing law), and 14 (Miscellaneous) survive termination.

13. Governing law & dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Lorain County, Ohio, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

You and LiberaVoice agree that any dispute will be resolved on an individual basis. Class actions, class arbitrations, and representative actions are not permitted.

14. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Data Retention Statement, are the entire agreement between you and LiberaVoice concerning the Service. They supersede any prior agreement or understanding.

Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. We'll bump the version number at the top and, for material changes, notify you in-app and by email at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Continued use after the effective date is your acceptance of the updated Terms.

No waiver

Our failure to enforce any part of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Severability

If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them freely, including to a successor entity in the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: Speechbuddy33@gmail.com.