New Chrome browser beta adds voice recognition API

January 15, 2013

A new beta version of Google’s Chrome browser for PCs can run Web applications controlled via user voice commands, so that people will be able to play computer games and compose documents through speech. The beta of Chrome 25 features the new Web Speech API (application programming interface), which lets developers include speech recognition features in their applications, Google announced on Monday. “So, in the near future you’ll be able to talk apps into doing all sorts of things,” wrote Glen Shires, a Google software engineer and speech specialist, in a blog post. Chrome 25 beta on Windows also will automatically disable some extensions that may have been “silently” installed on the browser by third-party applications, something Google first announced in December.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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