November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
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13h 23m
English
The Google Chrome web browser supports a speech input feature, which enables the user to transcribe voice data into text input values. Although this is not currently a part of any official HTML5 specification, you can add the attribute x-webkit-speech to text-based form inputs to activate it:
<input type='text' ... x-webkit-speech>
Unlike what the name implies, this feature is not supported by any other WebKit browsers.
The type attribute can be a text-based input type, such as text, number, telephone, and search. This is limited because x-webkit-speech is accessible only within simple text or number attributes and will not work on the URL, email, or date input type elements.
This feature is supported in Chrome 11 and later. ...
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