An example of how to do this is shown below.
Detecting Browser SupportĪ simple way of checking if the user’s browser supports speech input is to look for the webkitSpeech property on an element. You therefore cannot rely on this property to tell if the browser is displaying the speech input controls, only that the browser supports speech input in general. If you apply the x-webkit-speech attribute to an element with an unsupported input type, the webkitSpeech property on that element will still be set to true. In my testing I found that the text, number, and tel types do support speech input whereas the email, url, date, and month input types don’t. Speech input is not available for all the different HTML5 input types. EnableĮlement.webkitSpeech = false A Caveat About Input Types You can override this property to enable or disable speech input on an element. This is a boolean property and will therefore be set to true or false. In JavaScript, you can test to see if an element has speech input enabled by examining it’s webkitSpeech property. You can also start speech input by focussing the element and pressing Ctrl + Shift +. If you’re prompted to download the language data your Mac needs for enhanced voice recognition, confirm by clicking the Enable Dictation button. Step 4: First, enable Dictation by clicking the On radio button next to Dictation. Clicking on this icon will launch a small tooltip to show that your voice is now being recorded. Step 3: Click the Dictation pane under Dictation & Speech. When speech input is enabled the element will have a small microphone icon displayed on the right of the input. The x-webkit-speech attribute will indicate to the browser that the user should be given the option to complete this form field using speech input. You’ll learn how to give Chrome users the ability to fill-in text fields using speech, and how to detect support for this new speech input capability in browsers.Įnabling support for speech input is as simple as adding an attribute to your elements. In this post you’ll be learning how to take advantage of Google’s speech recognition technologies to enhance your web forms.
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There is one company however that looks to have cracked the problem – Google. Many organizations have tried (with varying levels of success) to create reliable speech recognition technologies. Speech recognition has somewhat eluded innovators for decades. Gestures, predictive text, and speech recognition are all examples of software innovations that have improved the way in which we interact with our devices.
These changes haven’t been limited to just hardware. Touch-screen devices and laptop trackpads have enabled a much more intuitive form of interaction than is achievable using a traditional mouse. The way that we interact with computers has changed dramatically over the past decade.
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