Can I have a speech recognition on Firefox?

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user2271933 picture user2271933 · Jul 30, 2014 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I currently have for my web application a speech recognition functionality achieved with a Speech Recognition library named annyang. This works only in chrome because x-webkit-speech(which is used for speech recognition) works only for Chrome.

My question here is if I can do something(even if I have to do radical changes) to have a speech recognition functionality in Mozilla Firefox too (and eventually in IE).

Answer

roctimo picture roctimo · Jul 30, 2014

Looks like they're working on it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/SpeechAPI#Technical_Stuff

...but that it's not coming any time soon: http://caniuse.com/web-speech

Looks like you'll need to stick with Chrome for the time being.

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