RE: An early draft of a speech API

I'm new to the visual browser space and am having a hard time understanding the <device> vs capture debate.

Anyone willing to provide a list of pros and cons?  Perhaps a blog pointer?

Thanks


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From: Satish Sampath [mailto:satish@google.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:06 PM
To: Olli@pettay.fi
Cc: Olli Pettay; Young, Milan; Robert Brown; public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org; Bjorn Bringert
Subject: Re: An early draft of a speech API

There is a good momentum behind the recent WHATWG proposal update for
real time communication at
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dnd.html#video-conferencing-and-peer-to-peer-communication.
The previous <device> tag version of this proposal was already being
prototyped and implemented by various vendors in the browser space.
Notably, Opera released a prototype recently at
http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/03/14/web-meet-device and Ericsson
Labs showed a prototype in webkit at
https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/beyond-html5-implementing-device-and-stream-management-webkit.

The fact that browser vendors are getting involved in this spec
proposal should encourage our XG to build upon this spec for the
remote recognizer use cases. I think this would be better than the DAP
device API which browser vendors have not picked up. However this
proposal is still a moving target and will likely evolve quickly.

Since all 3 proposals address the default recognizer case without any
external dependencies, I think it would be ideal to finalise a
concrete recommendation for that without getting blocked on remote
recognizers. That will allow browser vendors to implement the default
recognizers without having to wait for implementations to pick up the
DAP or WHATWG proposal for the audio capture part. We should of course
work on the remote recognizer proposal in parallel, but I don't see
why it should be a reason to gate a proposal for the simpler use case
with the default recognizer.

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Cheers
Satish

Received on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:42:16 UTC