Speech recognition with x-webkit-speech does not work in Chrome

monish picture monish · May 27, 2014 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

I am trying voice recognition using x-webkit-speech,i have also checked it is supported in my chrome browser , but it is giving error connection to speech server failed.

Answer

virsha picture virsha · Oct 7, 2015

The x-webkit-speech input field attribute is deprecated. Please use the JavaScript API instead.

There is a JavaScript SpeechRecognition API that does text-to-speech and speech-to-text. Not many browsers support it but Chrome should have support.

For your reference Github project for this purpose: https://github.com/Daniel-Hug/speech-input