Google technologists are hopeful that audio capabilities they are developing for browsers could serve as industry-standard technology.
The company is developing voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities for mobile and desktop browsers, said Ian Fette, product manager for the Google Chrome team, at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco late last week. Chrome is Google's Web browser.
"We're hoping that the text-to-speech APIs as well as the voice input, voice recognition ship in Chrome but also become a Web standard that is implementable by any browser out there," Fette said. He could not offer an estimate on when the capabilities would be in Chrome.
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The company is developing voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities for mobile and desktop browsers, said Ian Fette, product manager for the Google Chrome team, at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco late last week. Chrome is Google's Web browser.
"We're hoping that the text-to-speech APIs as well as the voice input, voice recognition ship in Chrome but also become a Web standard that is implementable by any browser out there," Fette said. He could not offer an estimate on when the capabilities would be in Chrome.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/197167/google_building_speech_capabilities_for_browsers.html