We're envisaging a simpler programmatic API that looks familiar to the modern Web developer but one which avoids the legacy of dialog system languages.
Dave On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM, João Eiras <jo...@opera.com> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:32:07 +0100, Bjorn Bringert <bring...@google.com> > wrote: > > We've been watching our colleagues build native apps that use speech >> recognition and speech synthesis, and would like to have JavaScript >> APIs that let us do the same in web apps. We are thinking about >> creating a lightweight and implementation-independent API that lets >> web apps use speech services. Is anyone else interested in that? >> >> Bjorn Bringert, David Singleton, Gummi Hafsteinsson >> >> > This exists already, but only Opera supports it, although there are > problems with the library we use for speech recognition. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml+voice/ > http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/add-voice-interactivity-to-your-site/ > > Would be nice to revive that specification and get vendor buy-in. > > > > -- > > João Eiras > Core Developer, Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/ >