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Monday, January 14, 2013
Using your voice to search on your computer or phone is handy, but there’s so much more you can do with voice commands. Imagine if you could dictate documents, have a freestyle rap battle, or control game characters with your browser using only your voice. With today’s
Chrome Beta
release, this future is closer than you think.
With the inclusion of the
Web Speech API
for developers, users can start enjoying new, interactive experiences with web apps, like in this
demo
where you can compose an email by speaking. With this new JavaScript API, developers can integrate speech recognition into their web apps. So, in the near future you’ll be able to talk apps into doing all sorts of things.
To make sure your Chrome installation isn’t being slowed down, today’s Chrome Beta will
automatically disable some extensions
on Windows that may have been added by third party programs without proper acknowledgement from users. The original intent was to give people an option to add useful extensions when installing applications, but unfortunately this feature has been widely abused by third parties who added extensions without user consent. A notification will appear with the option to re-enable the affected extensions.
Download
Chrome Beta
to give these latest enhancements a test drive. If you dig APIs more than chocolate cake you can get more details on the
Web Speech API
and this Chrome release over on the
Chromium blog
.
Posted by Glen Shires, Software Engineer and Speech Specialist
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