Re: HTML5 speech input API and Mozilla

On 03/24/2011 02:17 PM, Ken Saunders wrote:
> Please tell me that Mozilla is working on this.
>
> Google Chrome 11 hits beta with voice to text
> http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/03/google-chrome-11-hits-beta-wit.html
>
> Talking to your computer (with HTML!)
> http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/03/talking-to-your-computer-with-html5.html
>
> For disabled users, this is an obvious plus.
> For all users (especially lazy ones), this will be appealing.
> Massively and widely appealing.
> Perhaps due to that fact, Mozilla will step things up and this won't
> be looked at as just an accessibility matter.
>
> Other links.
> Speech Input API Specification
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Feb/att-0020/api-draft.html

That is not any official specification, only a proposal from
Google. I proposed a different kind of API, and Microsoft
proposed couple of APIs (of which two are very close to what
I proposed)

I highly doubt we're going to implement Google's API,
since it is just way too difficult to use it with
multiple fields or contentEditable etc.
Other API proposals are more flexible.


I'm hoping to have a GSoC project to implement some API.


-Olli





>
> Incubator Activity>  W3C HTML Speech Incubator Group
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/
>
> (Mozilla is a member)
>
> Ken