Last Thursday I had a pleasure to give a talk about Speech Recognition in the Browser at the Code Fellows in Seattle. Many people were surprised how easy it is to add speech recognition to your website with pure JavaScript. So I thought I will share a few code snippets here.
Recently I discover Web Speech API. I was already talking to the browser using Google Hangout or Google Translator, but I have never though about adding voice support to my website. I did some research, and I found a demo. Based on that I put up simple demo website (say: “show website blog”, and it will take you directly to the sub page that can be also approached with 3 mouse clicks). For now speech recognition works only in Google Chrome and Safari...