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Web application features you may not know: Web Speech API

Instead of tapping on the smartphone screen, you can do many tasks using voice control. This is not only useful when driving or otherwise with voice assistants. This can also be helpful for your own application.

In this context, the voice output should of course also be mentioned. Which complete such use cases.

The great thing is that a native application is not necessary for both cases. The SpeechRecognition API handles the speech recognition part. Apparently. 😄 Distribution in modern browsers is still limited and is also partly handled via web services. Therefore they do not work locally or offline.

The SpeechSynthesis API is used to output speech. Significantly better distribution can be expected here. If the language files are available locally, this also works without a server.

In addition to the web standard, there are also independent solutions that run powerfully as WASM, for example.

• MDN: Web Speech API
• Showcase: Create a Virtual Assistant in 100 Lines of JavaScript

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