Re: [whatwg] Web API for speech recognition and synthesis

[Dave Burke]

We're envisaging a simpler programmatic API that looks familiar to the
modern Web developer but one which avoids the legacy of dialog system
languages.

Dave

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM, João Eiras jo...@opera.com wrote:

 On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:32:07 +0100, Bjorn Bringert bring...@google.com
 wrote:

  We've been watching our colleagues build native apps that use speech
 recognition and speech synthesis, and would like to have JavaScript
 APIs that let us do the same in web apps. We are thinking about
 creating a lightweight and implementation-independent API that lets
 web apps use speech services. Is anyone else interested in that?

 Bjorn Bringert, David Singleton, Gummi Hafsteinsson


 This exists already, but only Opera supports it, although there are
 problems with the library we use for speech recognition.

 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml+voice/
 http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/add-voice-interactivity-to-your-site/

 Would be nice to revive that specification and get vendor buy-in.



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 João Eiras
 Core Developer, Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/

Re: [whatwg] Orientation event in Firefox

[Dave Burke]

+1, I like this approach for its simplicity and familiarity.

As part of fleshing out, there are probably a few small but key additions
that would greatly increase effectiveness:
  - update frequency (knowing the sample rate is crucial for even the most
trivial DSP operations such as filtering)
  - units (convention is in units of 'g', i.e 9.81 m/s^2)
  - magnetometer in addition to accelerometer (for heading)

Dave

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Doug Turner doug.tur...@gmail.com wrote:

 I posted some thoughts and a strawman for orientation in Firefox:

 http://dougt.org/wordpress/2009/08/orientation/

 Regards,
 Doug Turner







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