Is Speech Recognition Anywhere safe?
Speech Recognition Anywhere sends the signed-in Google account email and user ID to the vendor's license server when the extension loads.
When the extension's settings page (sr.html) loads, it retrieves the user's Chrome profile email and Google ID via the identity API and POSTs them alongside license metadata to www.seabreezecomputers.com. Optionally, if the Windows companion app is enabled, all speech recognition results are routed through a native messaging bridge to a local speech.exe process, which can inject text into any website the user visits.
Who publishes itjeffsbaker - 5 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
jeffsbaker - 5 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
5 other listings published from this account, 26k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Shared hosts - 7 hostnames
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.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.7.41. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 1.7.43, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on www.seabreezecomputers.com
*://www.seabreezecomputers.com/*
Read and change your data on seabreezecomputers.com
*://seabreezecomputers.com/*
Read and change your data on 192.168.1.5
*://192.168.1.5/*
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
See which of your requests its blocking rules matched
declarativeNetRequestFeedback
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
See the email address of your Google account
identity.email
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Write to your clipboard
clipboardWrite
Read whatever you have copied to your clipboard
clipboardRead
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Detect when you step away from your computer
idle
Keep your screen or computer awake
power
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Speech Anywh 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.
- www.seabreezecomputers.com
Speech Anywh sends data to www.seabreezecomputers.com. 2 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.