On-device Web Speech API

[evanbliu]

WebKittens

@eric-carlson

Title of the proposal

On-device Web Speech API

URL to the spec

WebAudio/web-speech-api#122

URL to the spec's repository

https://github.com/WebAudio/web-speech-api/

Issue Tracker URL

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Explainer URL

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TAG Design Review URL

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Mozilla standards-positions issue URL

mozilla/standards-positions#1157

WebKit Bugzilla URL

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Description

The Web Speech API is a web standard API that allows developers to incorporate speech recognition and synthesis into their web pages. Currently, the Web Speech API spec does not mention where speech recognition occurs, and most implementers of the API perform speech recognition using a cloud service. Enabling on-device speech recognition support allows websites to ensure that neither audio nor transcribed speech are sent to a third-party service for processing.