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Speech JavaScript API Specification (Speech Recognition for Web)
- iambot 15y agoThis looks promising, I've been working with the Emscripten[1] port of eSpeak and porting it to the browser and node.js [2] as a contributor (not author) [1]: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten https://github.com/kripken/emscripten [2]: https://github.com/christopherdebeer/speak.js https://github.com/christopherdebeer/speak.js I'm curious how best one could participate/contribute to spec drafts like this, seems it's being steered by Google at the moment.
- alexchamberlain 15y agoI assume, given the authors of the draft, that Chrome will have support for this soon? Edit: Apparently, it already has it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428329 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428329
- rvid 15y agoChromium has had support for it for more than a year now: http://codesearch.google.com/#wZuuyuB8jKQ/chromium/src/content/browser/speech/speech_recognizer.h&type=cs http://codesearch.google.com/#wZuuyuB8jKQ/chromium/src/conte... I worked on a basic implementation of these APIs for firefox last summer (as part of a Summer of Code project). From what I hear, its going to take a while before you see it in Firefox.
- cjfont 15y agoPretty exciting, particularly for doing command/control via speech recognition. I wish they would support BNF-style grammars the way Sphinx does.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoIs Google going to open-source their speech recognition engine? Without that, this feels like standards white-washing.