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Introducing the HTML5 Web Speech API: Your Practical Introduction to Adding Browser-Based Speech Capabilities to your Websites and Online Applications
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Introducing the HTML5 Web Speech API: Your Practical Introduction to Adding Browser-Based Speech Capabilities to your Websites and Online Applications

by Alex Libby
April 2020
Beginner to intermediate
354 pages
6h 6m
English
Apress
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© Alex Libby 2020
A. LibbyIntroducing the HTML5 Web Speech APIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5735-7_6

6. Project: Building Alexa

Alex Libby1 
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Rugby, UK
 

“Alexa, what time is it…?”

For some of you, I’ll bet that is an all too common a phrase in your household – I suspect it’s a case of not if, but how many!

Over the last few years, the growth of smart assistants (or SAs) such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant has exploded; gone are the days when we had to trawl web sites or search through newspapers or books to get that scrap of information. Indeed, one of the co-founders of Microsoft, Bill Gates, once said that he believed voice and speech output will become a standard part of the [web] interface – with the advent of Siri, Alexa, and Google ...

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