RE: Experimental speech-recognition portion of JavaScript Speech API in Chrome

Very nice work Hans and team.

Olli, any word from Mozilla on whether Firefox plans to release something similar?  If so, do you have a preference for receiving feedback via the CG or WG channel?

Thanks


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Wennborg [mailto:hwennborg@google.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 9:31 AM
> To: public-speech-api@w3.org
> Subject: Experimental speech-recognition portion of JavaScript Speech API in
> Chrome
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We've implemented an experimental speech-recognition portion of the
> JavaScript Speech API [1] in Chrome, which we encourage you to try out.
> 
> It is available in the current Chrome Dev channel at [2] and in the upcoming
> Chrome 23 beta & stable releases. The API needs to be enabled explicitly by
> opening about:flags and click Enable under "Speech Javascript API".
> 
> Since the API implementation is experimental, interface names are prefixed
> with "webkit", i.e. code that uses it could look like:
> 
>   var s = new webkitSpeechRecognition();
>   s.start();
> 
> This prefix will be removed once the implementation and API are stable
> enough.
> 
> Also note that the API is not available from file:/// URLs (unless Chrome is
> started with --allow-file-access-from-files on the command line).
> 
> Thanks,
> Hans
> 
> 1. http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html
> 2. http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

Received on Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:57:01 UTC