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Yesterday I was wondering how few sites I visited last week had implement speech to text and is gone today while I was using Firefox. Now I must admit, I had no idea that Google Chrome 11 has a wonderful speech analysis enabled by default with a few extra attributes added to a standard input box you can enable speech input. It really is that simple! You can add speech input to any input element by simply using the x-webkit-speech attribute; and as far as I’m aware only in very recent versions of Google Chrome. The Speech API seems new and is still a draft, so it will be a while before it’s fully adopted by other browser vendors. The results will depend on your accent and what you’re saying. In general, though, regularly-used English words and numbers are parsed surprisingly well given that the system isn’t trained to recognize your particular dulcet tones. Simple HTML code required for speech input: The x-webkit-speech attribute can be used on any HTML5 input element with a type of text, number, tel, or search. Unfortunately, it’s not permitted on textarea fields. I suspect that’s to stop people using it for long dictations which … Continue reading →