Chrome Beta Gets Voice Dictation Support

Soon, you will be able to craft emails in Google Chrome using only your voice. Google updated the beta feed of its Chrome browser Monday with developer support for the Web Speech API.

The Web Speech API is a JavaScript API that lets web developers integrate speech recognition into their websites and web apps.

Google Chrome has had support for voice search for quite some time but as the Google Chrome blog points out, more robust dictation support could open up a lot of other opportunities.

Google built a demo showcasing the new API support in the new Chrome Beta that lets users compose an email using their voice.

I tested out the feature and was very impressed. Despite being on…
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