Is Gemini Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Google Voices, TTS safe?
This extension converts pasted or uploaded text and documents into AI-generated speech using Gemini voices.
It opens an overlay where you can paste text or upload documents, then listen to the generated audio or download it for offline use. The description says it works with inputs such as Google Docs, PDFs, and custom text, and includes playback controls like speed adjustment, pause, and play. It does not read live web pages.
Rated medium risk because of who publishes it: 2 of the 8 other listings from the same operator are rated high or critical for malicious behaviour. Flagged: ChatGPT Reader/Transcriber: Free AI Text to Speech/Speech to Text (TTS/STT) (high), Google Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Natural Voices, TTS (high).
Who publishes itdemocraticdeveloper - 8 other listings from the same operator, 2 of them carrying a finding
democraticdeveloper - 8 other listings from the same operator, 2 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
8 other listings published from this account, 33k+ users between them. 2 of them carry a finding.
Shared hosts - 1 hostname
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Gemini Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Google Voices, TTS 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.
- gemini.google.com
Gemini Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Google Voices, TTS sends data to gemini.google.com. 23 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- Googlewidely used
Gemini Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Google Voices, TTS sends data to Google. Named as a recipient by 195 other extensions we have analysed.