Google has updated their Chrome Beta with support for the HTML5 speech input API and a new icon.
Fresh from the work that we've been doing with the HTML Speech Incubator Group, we've added support for the HTML5 speech input API. With this API, developers can give web apps the ability to transcribe your voice to text. When a web page uses this feature, you simply click on an icon and then speak into your computer's microphone. The recorded audio is sent to speech servers for transcription, after which the text is typed out for you. Try it out yourself in this little demo. Today's beta release also offers a sneak peek of GPU-accelerated 3D CSS, which allows developers to apply slick 3D effects to web page content using CSS.
You can also check out the Chrome icon below...
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Steve Jobs - March 23, 2011 at 6:33pm
What does the new Google icon have to do with text to speech?
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