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No one is asking this, but why is this chrome only (Disclaimer: I am a Firefox user)? is there a specific part that is tied to the native browser code (micropho
by nos4A2 13y ago
No one is asking this, but why is this chrome only (Disclaimer: I am a Firefox user)? is there a specific part that is tied to the native browser code (microphone and speakers can be accessed though web languages)? [Note] the tone of the question is curious and not accusatory
- Recoil42 13y agoWell, yes and no. It would be possible through Firefox, but the feature (through WebRTC) is very recent, and low-level -- you'd have to go through a prompt, then they'd probably have to connect with sockets, do a request, and come back with the final results. Conversely, Chrome has had x-webkit-speech -- a high-level text-to-speech feature -- since 2011. The code's already all there, everything just needed to be linked up and presented a little better. They'll probably come out with Firefox support in a while -- it just takes more work.
- mladenkovacevic 13y agoThere was a session at I/O called "More Awesome Web" which seemed to imply that a web audio API (which enables live microphone input) and a web speech API (which enables voice-recognition driven apps) are both currently only supported in Chrome. Here is a slide from that presentation: http://www.moreawesomeweb.com/#32 http://www.moreawesomeweb.com/#32 (just use the right arrow to progress through the slides). If that's what's holding up speech recognition for other browsers then hopefully these APIs can become more widely supported, but at the same time I don't think the demand for browser speech recognition is there yet. It makes sense on your phone, but bending over your desktop or laptop in order to talk to your computer somehow doesn't seem right yet.