Following your requests, I’m writing today about how you can bring full speech recognition to your web applications using the Web Speech API.

Today's Chrome Stable release includes support for the Web Speech API (discussed last month), which developers can use to integrate speech recognition capabilities into their web apps.

Google has rolled out a new addition to its Chrome browser this week in the form of a new Web Speech API, allowing users to use speech when visiting supported websites using the Google Chrome browser.

Google While the Web Speech API is clearly the focus of today’s launch, Google added many other security and developer-focused features to the beta as well.

It cleverly relies on the Web Speech API to deliver the speaking parts, which helps keep the code size tiny. The only thing it’s missing is an occasional shadow of static drifting across the audio.

The Web Speech API will now likely be used by other Web developers to build more pages and content that will allow users to ditch their keyboards for a wide range of functions.

Google is adding support for 30 additional languages to the Cloud Speech API, and this means that services such as Voice Search, Translate, and Gboard will be able to understand many more users ...