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Everybody’s talking (and translating) with Chrome
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Today, we’re excited to make a nifty feature widely available in today’s new Chrome stable release: speech input through HTML.
Curious about how speech input can be used in real life? Here’s one example: Using Chrome, you can now translate what you say into other languages with
Google Translate
. If you’re translating from English, just click on the microphone on the bottom right of the input box, speak your text, and choose the language you want to translate to. In fact, you can even click on the “
Listen
” feature to hear the translated words spoken back to you!
Speech input through HTML is one of many new web technologies in the browser that help make innovative and useful web applications like Google Translate’s speech feature possible. If you’d like to check out more examples of applications built using the latest and greatest web technologies in the browser, you can check out more than 200 submissions by web developers on
chromeexperiments.com
. If you’re not already using Chrome, don’t forget to first download Chrome at
google.com/chrome
.
Posted by Josh Estelle, Software Engineer
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