Speech Recognition on the Web

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Shows a pure JavaScript speech recognizer that runs on the client and recognizes digits with a reported real time factor 0.082, demonstrates interim vs final results and top alternatives, and uses the Web Speech API examples with settings like language, continuous, interim results and maxAlternatives. Implementation history mentions a Firefox OS research build, browser support is Chrome and Opera out of the box and Firefox behind a flag, and a live demo mostly works though interim results sometimes go off the rails.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:40Welcome
3. 1:50Background
4. 2:50Speech Recognition
5. 5:20Use Cases
6. 6:10Demo

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