Is Text to Speech Extension safe?
Text to Speech Extension sends selected or page text to cloud text-to-speech services when you start playback.
When you use playback from the popup, keyboard shortcut, or context menu, the extension extracts the selected text or page text for speech. That text can be sent to support.readaloud.app for speech or language detection, or to translate.google.com for Google Translate speech output.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.5. 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/
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
Run hidden pages in the background
offscreen
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
Speak text aloud
tts
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Text to Speech Extension 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.
- translate.google.comwidely used
Text to Speech Extension sends data to translate.google.com. A widely used service: 44 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- support.readaloud.app
Text to Speech Extension sends data to support.readaloud.app. 4 other extensions we have analysed send data here.