Is there an API for Google's speech recognition technology?

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I want to try creating a jQuery slideshow using simple voice commands like "next" or "previous". Is there a way to use Google's voice recognition? I know about Chrome's x-webkit-speech, but I have to click a button to use it.

I tried MIT's WAMI, but I found it slower and less accurate than Google's speech cognition.

possible duplicate of [How Google Voice Search works? Is there an API for that?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6389039/how-google-voice-search-works-is-there-an-api-for-that) — Mateen Ulhaq, Jan 19 '12 at 06:49

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '13 at 13:55

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As of today this now exists, for Chrome: http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/hello-browser.html

(api doc)

answered Jan 16 '13 at 13:55

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I've created a JavaScript library that wraps this and makes it super-easy to add voice commands to your site or app. Check it out at https://www.talater.com/annyang/ – Tal Ater Sep 07 '13 at 23:28

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 02 '14 at 23:55

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For an easy way to do this with JavaScript, check out annyang, which is a library that makes dealing with speech recognition super-easy.

answered Jan 02 '14 at 23:55

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 12 '12 at 16:30

The issue is what will capture your user's speech and send it some speech server for processing. x-webkit-speech is built into the browser and the browser uses the PC's sound card to capture speech. Javascript/Jquery in a browser alone cannot access the hardware devices. I do not know if Chrome exposes any x-webkit-speech objects in the DOM so you can do capture through Javascript.

That said, people have reverse engineered the Google speech api and used it from code. See http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chrome-11/ for an example.

I cant use it in 2015. Is there anyone who got it working? – Max Jun 17 '15 at 15:05 — Max, Jun 17 '15 at 15:05

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 12 '12 at 06:36

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I found this, I have not personally used it do I don't know if it is entirely what you are looking for but take a look.

http://captico.com/introducing-speech-2-text-api-by-google/2011/03

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answered Jan 12 '12 at 05:03

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Nice interface with that uses this technology is https://www.textfromtospeech.com/uk/voice-to-text/ – Paul R Jan 27 '17 at 22:17

Is there an API for Google's speech recognition technology?

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