Last updated: October 17, 2026

Speak It reads web pages aloud. Everything it does happens in your browser, on your computer. It has no
server of its own, no accounts, no analytics and no ads, and it doesn't collect, sell or share any data
about you.


When you ask it to read, Speak It reads the text of the page (or the text you selected), turns it into
speech with a model running in your browser, and plays it. The text and the audio stay on your computer:
they are never sent anywhere.

• Your settings, the voice and the speed, in the browser's extension storage. If you use Chrome Sync
  or a Firefox account, your browser may sync them to your other devices, as it does for other extensions'
  settings.
• The speech model (about 325 MB), in the browser's storage for the extension, so it's downloaded only
  once.

Removing the extension deletes both.

• bumbleforge.com, once, to download the speech model: the first time you open Speak It's menu or read
  something. This is a plain file download. Like any web server, bumbleforge.com sees your IP address when
  you download it. Speak It sends nothing else, and the server's logs aren't used to track or identify
  anyone.
• docs.google.com, only when you read a Google Doc. Google Docs draws its text in a way that can't be
  read from the page, so Speak It downloads the document's plain-text export from Google with your existing
  Google session, the same as choosing File → Download → Plain text. The text goes from Google to your
  browser and nowhere else.

Speak It can run on every website so that it can read whichever page you choose. It only reads a page's
text when you ask it to, and only to read it aloud. Until then it notes just when you last selected text
(not what you selected), so that it reads the right part of pages made of several frames.


Questions about privacy: open an issue at <https://bumbleforge.com/kglitchy/speak-it/issues>.