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Speech Recognition with JavaScript

JoelBonetR 🥇 on August 22, 2022

Cover image credits: dribbble Some time ago, speech recognition API was added to the specs and we got partial support on Chrome, Safari, Baidu, an...

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İbrahim Yaşar • Aug 31 '22

This is really awesome. Could you please add the Turkish language? I would definitely like to try this in my native language and use it in my projects.

JoelBonetR 🥇 • Aug 31 '22

Added! 😁

İbrahim Yaşar • Aug 31 '22

Thanks :)

venkatgadicherla • Aug 25 '22

It's cool mate. Very good

JoelBonetR 🥇 • Aug 25 '22

Thank you! 🤖

venkatgadicherla • Oct 13 '22

Can u add Telugu a Indian language:)

JoelBonetR 🥇 • Oct 13 '22

I can try, do you know the IETF/ISO language code for it? 😁

Thomas Hansen • Aug 22 '22

Cool. I once created a speech based speech recognition thing based upon MySQL and SoundEx allowing me to create code by speaking through my headphones. It was based upon creating a hierarchical “menu” where I could say “Create button”. Then the machine would respond with “what button”, etc. The thing of course produced Hyperlambda though. I doubt it can be done without meta programming.

One thing that bothers me is that this was 5 years ago, and speech support has basically stood 100% perfectly still in all browsers since then … 😕

JoelBonetR 🥇 • Aug 22 '22

One thing that bothers me is that this was 5 years ago, and speech support has basically stood 100% perfectly still in all browsers since then … 😕

Not in all of them, (e.g. Opera mini, FireFox mobile), it's a nice to have in browsers, specially targeting accessibility, but screen readers for blind people do the job and, on the other hand, most implementations for any other purpose send data to a backend using streams so they can process the incoming speech plus use the user feedback to train an IA among others and without hurting the performance.

...allowing me to create code by speaking through my headphones... ... I doubt it can be done without meta programming.

I agree on this. The concept "metaprogramming" is extense and covers different ways in which it can work (or be implemented) and from its own definition it is a building block for this kind of applications.