How Google Voice Search works? Is there an API for that?

Question

I\'m not sure if this is the right site for this question, but I was wondering how the voice activated search on Google\'s homepage works. Does it use Flash, some kind of pl

Answer 1

It's using HTML5 speech input via

as the name suggests, this only works in webkit. Not sure if there are alternatives for other browsers.

See http://jsfiddle.net/xYB3n/