Web Assist

Surf the web, dictate, and much more with just your voice

Extension stats

Users: 65 ▲ 4
Version: 1.7.5 (Last updated: 2024-10-01)
Creation date: 2024-01-28
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
  • bookmarks
  • clipboardRead
  • clipboardWrite
Size: 327.68K

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Extension summary

Web Assist is your gateway to a brand new browsing experience. With just your voice, you can easily navigate the web, interact with web pages, dictate messages, and perform a wide range of tasks without using your hands. Web Assist includes dozens of voice commands that replace the need to use the mouse or keyboard.

Key Features

Effortless Browsing: Scroll through web pages, play videos, click on elements such as links, and much more using simple voice commands. To provide additional flexibility, there are several shortcut keys that you can use in place of the most commonly used voice commands.

Explore the Web: Search the web with Google, open websites, go back and forth between tabs, and bookmark your favorite sites.

Voice-Controlled Dictation: Dictate emails, fill out forms, and more. Other related features include automatic text formatting.

Apps Included: Dictate using the text editor app. Create, play, and save audio recordings from your microphone with the voice/audio recorder app.

Premium Features: Upgrade to Web Assist Premium to create custom shortcut commands to open pages that you visit regularly, save custom template commands to input commonly used text snippets into any input field, control recognition when the page loads, start recognition with your voice, and change the timeout setting.

Excellent Performance: Uses the browser’s fast, reliable, and accurate speech to text technology. Also has support for the Edge browser.

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Web Assist requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Web Assist is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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