I didn't, discussion will happen in 1.5 weeks at TPAC, as this will need
some cross-vendor discussion.

Paul.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 5:49 AM Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:

> How did you conclude the WPT issue would be handled?
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 3:32 AM 'Paul Adenot' via
> [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Just a note here that we intend to ship this in 161 on all desktop
> platforms, important dates for this at
> https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=161.
> >
> > Best,
> > Paul.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM Paul Adenot <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Both, the had a cloud-based path for a long time, but they have shipped
> an on-device implementation for probably more than a year now.
> >>
> >> In my own (limited) testing, the on-device implementation is generally
> preferred.
> >>
> >> I'm not entirely certain what technical solution is employed to perform
> the actual recognition, and it is bound to evolve, with useful feature
> we'll add to the spec.
> >>
> >> The standard allows for a wide variety of backends and some latitude in
> quality/features. Google certainly has nice in-house solutions for various
> performance envelopes.
> >>
> >> Paul.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM Tom Ritter <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is Blink's implementation also on-device or is it using Google's
> backend (or maybe their JS AI API that goes to Gemini in the backend...?)
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 7:49 AM 'Paul Adenot' via
> [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Summary:
> >>>> This is a _strictly_ on device implementation of the
> SpeechRecognition interface.
> >>>> The speech synthesis counterpart defined in this specification is
> untouched.
> >>>>
> >>>> This can turn audio, directly from the microphone or a same-origin
> >>>> MediaStreamTrack into timed text, in real-time, with low-latency.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bug:
> >>>> Implementgation:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=webspeechondevice
> >>>> Activation in Nighly:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2069803
> >>>> Shipping: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2072585
> >>>>
> >>>> Specification:
> >>>> https://webaudio.github.io/web-speech-api/#speechreco-section
> >>>>
> >>>> Standards Body:
> >>>> Audio Community Group, to be adopted in the Audio Working Group next
> charter (currently being draft)
> >>>>
> >>>> Platform Coverage:
> >>>> All desktop platforms, Android tracked in
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1244242.
> >>>> It's mostly a question of performance, we want to make sure we can
> use hardware
> >>>> acceleration on mobile.
> >>>>
> >>>> Preference:
> >>>> media.webspeech.recognition.enable
> >>>>
> >>>> DevTools Bug:
> >>>> N/A
> >>>>
> >>>> Extensions Bug:
> >>>> N/A
> >>>>
> >>>> Use Counter:
> >>>>
> https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/search?q=&path=dom%2Fbase%2FUseCounters.conf&case=false&regexp=false
> >>>>
> >>>> Standards-Positions Discussion:
> >>>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/170
> >>>>
> >>>> Other Browsers:
> >>>>     Blink: Shipped
> >>>>     WebKit: No information
> >>>>
> >>>> web-platform-tests:
> >>>> Complicated. There are some manual tests, but this needs a rather
> large model
> >>>> to run. I'm actively investigating.
> >>>>
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