Re: Chrome beta

• From: Satish Sampath <satish@google.com>
• Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:13:07 +0000
• To: Robert Brown <Robert.Brown@microsoft.com>
• Cc: "public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org" <public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <AANLkTi=o5rh_2oLoUb-9cMdG92ZXTc+fX--TF1-nLt5t@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for pointing out Robert. We have added the following correction
to the post now:

"This beta release's Speech API implementation is a prototype of
Google’s proposal to the HTML Speech Incubator Group. The title of the
blogpost has been changed to reflect this. "

Cheers
Satish



On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Robert Brown
<Robert.Brown@microsoft.com> wrote:
> This is getting a lot of press today (engadget, techcrunch, etc)
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> http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/03/talking-to-your-computer-with-html5.html
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> 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”
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> 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.
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> 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”?
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> Thanks.
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