Is WebOutLoud - Text to Speech Web Reader safe?
WebOutLoud sends page text to its API for summaries and selected text to AWS Polly for premium speech.
When you choose Summarize, WebOutLoud collects readable text from the current page and posts it with account identifiers to api.bretlester.com. Premium text-to-speech obtains temporary AWS credentials from the same API and uses AWS Polly to turn selected page text into MP3 audio.
Who publishes itSol Proprietorship - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2025.9.25.1. 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 weboutloud.io
https://weboutloud.io/
Read and change your data on wol.io.dev.weboutloud.io
https://wol.io.dev.weboutloud.io/
Store data in your browser
storage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed WebOutLoud - Text to Speech Web 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.
- api.bretlester.com
WebOutLoud - Text to Speech Web Reader sends data to api.bretlester.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- polly.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
WebOutLoud - Text to Speech Web Reader sends data to polly.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.