Google Chrome 11 - Speech to Text
Post date: May 1, 2011 2:09:13 PM
Google Chrome now supports speech to text input. As announced in the Google Blog, with Google Chrome 11 and HTML5 tags, web designers can create pages where the user clicks a microphone icon and speaks into the computer's microphone to fill in the form. This Google Gadget demonstrates the Google Chrome 11 web browser's ability to input text using your voice and HTML5 tags. Webmasters can enable the speech to text synthesis instantly by including a custom x-webkit-speech property.
Modifying existing web pages literally takes seconds. The text field of a form has a x-webkit-speech custom tag:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>Text synthesis...</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY LANG="en-CA" DIR="LTR">
<P>
<form>
<input type="text" speech="speech" x-webkit-speech="x-webkit-speech" style="width: 100%;"/></input>
</form>
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>