Is Edge Text to Speech Voice Reader safe?
Edge Text to Speech Voice Reader lets pages trigger text-to-speech and sends the chosen text to Microsoft Bing Speech.
The content script runs on all URLs and listens for same-window messages with the action triggerTTS. When it receives text through that bridge, it places the text in an SSML WebSocket request to Microsoft's Bing Speech service for audio synthesis.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.3. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on speech.platform.bing.com
https://speech.platform.bing.com/* and 1 more
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Edge Text to Speech Voice Reader contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- speech.platform.bing.com
Edge Text to Speech Voice Reader sends data to speech.platform.bing.com. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.