Hi, Bjorn-
Bjorn Bringert wrote (on 5/17/10 9:05 AM):
Back in December there was a discussion about web APIs for speech
recognition and synthesis that saw a decent amount of interest
(http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-December/thread.html#24281).
Based on that discussion, we would like to propose a simple API for
speech recognition, using a new<input type="speech"> element. An
informal spec of the new API, along with some sample apps and use
cases can be found at:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaYxrITemjbxZGNmZzc5cHpfM2Ryajc5Zmhx&hl=en.
It would be very helpful if you could take a look and share your
comments. Our next steps will be to implement the current design, get
some feedback from web developers, continue to tweak, and seek
standardization as soon it looks mature enough and/or other vendors
become interested in implementing it.
This is important work, thanks for taking it on and bringing it to a
wider discussion forum. Here's a couple of other venues you might also
consider discussing it, above and beyond discussion on the WHATWG list:
* W3C just launched a new Audio Incubator Group (Audio XG), as a forum
to discuss various aspects of audio on the Web. The Audio XG is not
intended to produce Recommendation-track specifications like this
(though they will likely prototype and write a draft spec for a
read-write audio API), but it could serve a role in helping work out use
cases and requirements, reviewing specs, and so forth. I'm not totally
sure that this is relevant to your interests, but I thought I would
bring it up.
* The Voice Browser Working Group is very interested in bringing their
work and experience into the graphical browser world, so you should work
with them or get their input. As I understand it, some of them plan to
join the Audio XG, too (specifically to talk about speech synthesis in
the larger context), so that might be one forum to have some
conversations. VoiceXML is rather different than X/HTML or the browser
DOM, and the participants in the VBWG don't necessarily have the right
experience in graphical browser approaches, so I think there's an
opportunity for good conversation and cross-pollination here.
[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/audio/
[2] http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Regards-
-Doug
