Does Chrome have built-in speech recognition for “x-webkit-speech” input elements?

Question

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Is there a speech recognition enging built into Chrome or is it ac

Answer 1

They are using their own API for speech recognition. Ex: sending a post request to there servers.

Answer 2

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Balu, your link is actually a bit out of date.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.

Answer 3

This feature now works on chrome 11 beta.

check this out..

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#speech-input

Answer 4

This might be of interest https://github.com/taf2/speech2text ruby bindings for the google speech to text API

Answer 5

There is an experimental fork of speexenc that can encode x-speex-with-header-byte MIME binary format, its referenced on the QXIP Wiki and is available on GitHub. Does the job fine by placing the size of the frame as the first byte of packets.

Answer 6

I just confirmed this on my Chrome Cr-48, it works.