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

Here's some very simple sample JavaScript code using the Speech Api to fill
an input-field and to fill a select-options list with n-best alternatives.
To use them:

- Install dev-channel Chrome:
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

- Open a new tab and type "about:flags".

- Enable "Speech JavaScript API" and click button at bottom to "Relaunch
Now".

- Open one of the enclosed web pages: This is can be done by browsing from:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-speech-api/2012Sep/

/Glen Shires

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Hans Wennborg <hwennborg@google.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>