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

Question

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.

Solution 1

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

(api doc)

Solution 2

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

Solution 3

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.

Solution 4

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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Comments

[Mateen Ulhaq]

possible duplicate of How Google Voice Search works? Is there an API for that?

[Tal Ater]

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 talater.com/annyang

[Max]

I cant use it in 2015. Is there anyone who got it working?

[Paul R]

Nice interface with that uses this technology is textfromtospeech.com/uk/voice-to-text