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I'm wondering how
<input type="text" x-webkit-speech speech />
Is there a speech recognition enging built into Chrome or is it accessing an underlying speech recognition facility in the operating system?
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The x-webkit-speech attribute can be used on any HTML5 input element with a type of text, number, tel, or search. Unfortunately, it's not permitted on textarea fields. I suspect that's to stop people using it for long dictations which could result in inaccurate results or high memory usage.
You can also start speech input by focussing the element and pressing Ctrl + Shift + . on Windows, or Command + Shift + .
The speech recognition part of the Web Speech API allows authorized Web applications to access the device's microphone and produces a transcript of the voice being recorded. This allows Web applications to use voice as one of the input & control method, similar to touch or keyboard.
Apple has added support for speech recognition technology into a version of its Safari web browser the company is testing with the release of MacOS 11.3 Big Sur for developers. The speech recognition interface lets websites and web apps listen to spoken words and use the resulting text.
Yup, Chrome does speech recognition via Google's servers. But there's no reason that other browsers couldn't choose to implement it differently (for example using some speech recognition facility in the OS).
Balu, your link is actually a bit out of date. The latest Google proposal can be found here: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/2010/10/google-api-draft.html
Although speech recognition has been available in the Chrome dev channel for some time, it has not shipped yet and we're not yet sure when it will ship. We definitely want people to play with the API and offer feedback on it, but we don't think it's quite ready for prime time yet.
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