Is Text to Speech (Dubbing) - SpeakText safe?

Clean risk

Text to Speech (Dubbing) - SpeakText sends entered text and imported subtitles to Microsoft Edge Read Aloud for audio.

When you enter text or import an .srt subtitle file and preview or save speech, the extension wraps that text as SSML and sends it over a WebSocket to Microsoft Edge Read Aloud. The service at speech.platform.bing.com returns generated MP3 audio for playback or download.

hocginv0.0.24Chrome Web Store
1Risk
Who publishes it

hocgin - 6 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.

Publisher
hocgin

Same store account

6 other listings published from this account, 11k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.0.24. 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 every site you visit

    <all_urls>

  • Add items to the right-click menu

    contextMenus

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Show you desktop notifications

    notifications

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Text to Speech (Dubbing) - SpeakText 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

    Text to Speech (Dubbing) - SpeakText sends data to speech.platform.bing.com. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

Updated 30 September 2026kglnbmpmjfbmcodgcgibonfeenmmgmmp