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Webkitspeechrecognition no speech timer12/8/2022 WEBKITSPEECHRECOGNITION NO SPEECH TIMER CODEYou'll note that nobody likes to ship vendor prefixed stuff anymore in the release channel, and here's part of the reason why: When everyone writes code like the example, it assumes that they aren't experiments or that they must be identical. Unfortunately, this interface arrived in Chrome just about the time that we began to admit to ourselves what a problem this creates. This is an approach that used to common, but that has changed and at one point we thought it was a really keen idea. I'm going to recommend, however, that you don't and here's why: Because we're just not far enough along to pretend we know what a compatible and standard SpeechRecognition will look like or that there ever will be any of those others. There are a number of really good articles that will tell you that you should have a line that looks something like this:Ĭonst SpeechRecognition = window.SpeechRecognition || window.mozSpeechRecognition || window.msSpeechRecognition || window.webkitSpeechRecognition Ĭonst recognition = new SpeechRecognition() This is the thing that makes recognition possible. Ok, so first things first: webkitSpeechRecognition. It's a much harder problem in general, and there are a lot of gotchas here too. This is currently not widely supported - in fact, only Chrome has a "working" implementation popularly deployed, but it is available in FirefoxOS and availableīehind a flag while they work out some permissions issues and reportedly under development in Edge as well. Things: Speech as input or "voice recognition" or, if you prefer "speech-to-text". But now we're going to talk about the other end of As I've said, this is actually supported to some degree in all modern browsers. So far we've been talking about the unoffical Web Speech APIs in terms of speech as output, or text-to-speech. In this post I'll talk about the other end of that: listening or speech-to-text. We "have" today with regard to making the browser "talk" and why. In my last post You Don't Say: Web Speech APIs Part II, I talked about how I'm personally papering over what WEBKITSPEECHRECOGNITION NO SPEECH TIMER SERIESThis is part of a series about making the browser speak and listen to speech. Posted on Listen up: Web Speech APIs Part III
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