Use x-webkit-speech in an HTML/JavaScript extension

Question

I am trying to use the new x-webkit-speech function in a simple HTML/JavaScript extension in Google Chrome. I, however, have tried and tried looking at a bunch of e

Answer 1

I was playing around with this feature today and actually your code seems to be OK and works for me. The full version would be the following:

Though I did notice that onChange() does not get called if Chrome fails to recognize the speech. I'm using Chrome 11.0.696.28 beta. Also the speech attribute is not necessary if you're targeting only webkit-based browsers like Chrome or Safari. And even if you leave it in, it doesn't work with Firefox 4. Not sure about IE9 since I don't have it.