Re: Chrome beta

On 03/23/2011 06:57 PM, Robert Brown wrote:
> This is getting a lot of press today (engadget, techcrunch, etc)
>
> http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/03/talking-to-your-computer-with-html5.html
>
> It includes the line: “Fresh from the work that we’ve been doing with
> the HTML Speech Incubator Group, we’ve added support for the HTML5
> speech input API”
>
> Unfortunately, the implication here (probably unintended) is that this
> API a product of the XG, which it isn’t. And the press is interpreting
> it as the “HTML5 Speech API”, which it isn’t.
>
> Satish, would you mind posting a clarification to the Chrome blog,
> stating something along the lines of “this is a prototype of Google’s
> proposal to the HTML Speech Incubator Group”?

Yes, that would be good. Also, saying that the API
has something to do with HTML5 is quite misleading.


-Olli