Is Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader safe?
Read Aloud sends the active tab URL and error details to its vendor server when a text-to-speech playback error occurs.
When a TTS playback error is encountered, the extension reads the last active tab URL from local storage and transmits it alongside TTS settings (voice, rate, pitch, volume) and the error stack to support.readaloud.app. This happens automatically without user interaction. Outside of error conditions, the extension operates locally using browser-provided TTS engines and the Google Translate API for voice synthesis.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.84.1. 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 translate.google.com
https://translate.google.com/
Read and change your data on ttstool.com
https://*.ttstool.com/*
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Read Aloud: A 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.
- support.readaloud.app
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader sends data to support.readaloud.app. 4 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.