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This is a tutorial for Web Speech API.

Web Speech API Tutorial

This is a tutorial for Web Speech API.

The presentation here.

Start a simple web server

It makes it easier if instead of opening a file with browser, we start a webserver.

An easy python3 webserver can be used like this

python3 -m http.server

Now we can open the page on browser: http://localhost:8000

Test page

We can now change index.html and use other features in Web Speech API specifications.

Reading

1. Web Speech API Specifications: https://w3c.github.io/speech-api/speechapi.html

2. Examples

• Mozila demo
• Google demo

Some javascript knowledge is required to start using Web Speech API. For a quick Javascript introduction, these two books are great:

• "A re-introduction to JavaScript (JS tutorial)". Retrieved from https://developer.mozilla.org/
• Morgan, Nick. JavaScript for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming. No Starch Press, 2014.
• Haverbeke, Marijn. Eloquent JavaScript: a modern introduction to programming. No Starch Press, 2014. http://eloquentjavascript.net/