x-webkit-speech is deprectated. A JS replacement for simple speech input for ?

Question

I noticed this warning in Chrome devtool's console:

The x-webkit-speech input field attribute is deprecated. Please use the JavaScript API instead.

So what's the best JS API replacement for simple speech input on input fields?

Perhaps there exists a drop-in JS module that will handle it for me?

A google search for your error msg verbatim gave this up in about 2 minutes: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/01/Voice-Driven-Web-Apps-Introduction-to-the-Web-Speech-API — enhzflep, Apr 21 '14 at 02:25
@enhzflep Yeah, I read that article more than once. It's a nice intro to the web speech API, but nothing close to a drop in replacement for the `x-webkit-speech` attribute. — Web_Designer, Apr 21 '14 at 04:10
For the ones, who want to know, why attribute was deprecated: It was a security vulnerability in Chrome till M35: https://blogs.janestreet.com/disabling-chromes-x-webkit-speech-vulnerability/ — Volker E., Aug 20 '14 at 21:12

Web_Designer · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-17T17:40:12.600

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Answering my own question:

Just made a Github project for this purpose: https://github.com/Daniel-Hug/speech-input

edited Nov 17 '14 at 17:40

answered Jun 06 '14 at 04:38

Web_Designer

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 28 '14 at 07:15

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There is a JavaScript SpeechRecognition API that does text-to-speech and speech-to-text. Not many browsers support it but Chrome should have support.

edited Sep 28 '14 at 07:15

Nikolay Shmyrev

answered Jun 04 '14 at 03:03

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