What Talebrix keeps, and what it does not
Talebrix is designed to keep as little as a book needs. A profile is a name for the cover and a reading level, with no birthday. The child's voice is turned into words and is not meant to be kept. A finished book is kept until a grown-up deletes it, and a book, a profile or the whole account can each be deleted in one go. Some of this depends on companies we have not yet signed up with, and the full account of what is sent and kept will be published before launch.
Last checked 5 November 2026 by Tom McDonough, Co-Founder and CTO
Talebrix is not on sale yet, and production is targeted for June 2027. This page describes the design, and it will change if the design does.
At a glance
| A child's voice | Turned into words, then not kept. We will confirm this with the companies we use. |
|---|---|
| A profile | The name for the cover and a reading level. No birthday. |
| A finished book | Kept until a grown-up deletes it. |
| A book read aloud | Kept with the book, and deleted with it. |
| The wi-fi password | Kept on the machine, locked away. Never sent anywhere. |
The child's voice
When a child presses the red button and speaks, the recording is sent securely to a service that turns speech into words. The plan is that the recording is deleted as soon as that is done, and that the service may not use it to improve its own products. Those are conditions we will hold the company to before launch, not promises about a company we have not yet signed up with.
The voice that reads a book aloud is never made from the child's voice. It reads the printed words, and nothing the child said is sent to it.
Deleting things
A grown-up can delete a book, a profile or the whole account, each in one action. Our backup copies are replaced as we go, so anything deleted is gone from those too within 35 days.
A name written on a drawing
When a book is started from a child's drawing and the child has written a name on it, that name may reach the service that draws the pictures, as part of the drawing, and may appear in the book's pictures.
What else it talks to
To keep its clock right, the machine checks the time with time.aws.com, a clock service run by Amazon Web Services, and nothing else. That service sees your home's internet address and nothing else about your family.
What this page does not say yet
How long the services we use keep anything on their side, and exactly what each one is sent, depends on companies we have not yet signed up with. We would rather leave it out than describe it before it is decided. It will be published in full before Talebrix goes on sale.
Questions families ask
- Does Talebrix itself ask for anything about my child?
- When a grown-up sets it up, it asks for a nickname and an age or reading level, never a birthday. To make a book, what your child says, the story and the pictures are worked out on computers over the internet rather than on the machine. We plan for recordings to be deleted, and for the companies we use to be barred from learning from them, and we will hold them to that before launch. This website collects nothing about your child.
How this page is kept true
Every number on this page is read from the same facts the rest of the site uses, so when a fact changes the page changes with it. The date at the top changes only when a person has read the page against the product.
- First published.