Web Speech is a #JavaScript API that brings two main capabilities to Web browsers: speech synthesis and speech recognition. It was developed by the Web Speech #CommunityGroup (i.e. not a formal standard at this point) w3c.github.io/speech-api/web… github.com/w3c/speech-api/
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman
31 Jan 2018
We're starting day 1 of the @W3CTAG face-to-face meeting in London on WebSpeech, and the implications for 'hot wording' (Alexa/OK Google/Hey Siri). github.com/w3ctag/meetings/t…
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Speech Synthesis is pretty widely supported in current browsers: caniuse.com/#feat=speech-syn…
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Speech Recognition on the other hand has currently a pretty limited level of cross-browser support caniuse.com/#feat=speech-rec…
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With the rise of voice-based assistants, and with new fields of application of Web technologies (VR headsets, IOT) where hand-based text input isn't ideal, there has been a simmering interest to bring this to the formal standardization track github.com/w3c/strategy/issu…