Wait... there's speech recognition built into the browser?? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... - ThreadSky

bholmes.dev • 67 days ago

Wait... there's speech recognition built into the browser??
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API

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wonday.bsky.social•65 days ago

who else is playing with some voice apps 👀

anything better out there? most speech to text api were based on REST req / upload, i wanted something real-time where i can stream audio, and this will do fine for side-projects

wonday.bsky.social•65 days ago

DUDE i came across this today too. since 2014 ... wth?
cryptically mentions chrome "sends to remote server for transcription"
seems dead, but great if you're prototyping something.

cmichaelgraham.bsky.social•67 days ago

Worked good for me in chrome

pranavgoel.me•67 days ago

Just like bluetooth apis they are quite interesting..

stevealee.bsky.social•67 days ago

I tried it a few years back and had very limited success. It relies on server side support and so no good offline

bholmes.dev•67 days ago

For whatever reason, safari doesn't have that restriction but chrome does. Seems to work fine for an SSG I just built

stevealee.bsky.social•67 days ago

Greatvitcworks. Must try. It failed to work reliably for me. Reminded me of early days of tts in Ms word. Needed to speak in an American or mid atlantic accent, lol

stevealee.bsky.social•67 days ago

Interesting at the time I had no access to safari. Now I have a m2 mac mininso might try again. Mind you OS speed recognition can do a lot but less targeted.

bholmes.dev•67 days ago

Actually, I mistook server to mean server-rendered. Seems to be an https restriction for security reasons. Can't really see that being a problem? Unless I'm missing something

stevealee.bsky.social•67 days ago

Yes chrome called a Google endpoint to perform tts. It could use local platform tts i guess.

stevealee.bsky.social•67 days ago

Oops not tts, spech recog. Sorry.

bholmes.dev•67 days ago

Was over here thinking I had to built a whisper.cpp + wasm cocktail or something. Crazy

markshust.com•67 days ago

You do if you want to have something that works 😆

bholmes.dev•67 days ago

Seems to work fine. What am I missing?

markshust.com•66 days ago

Every non-Whisper translator that I have used is very inaccurate. Whisper is the standard now.

bholmes.dev•66 days ago

That's a shame. It's a CPU hog, which feels sketchy to use with anything I ship to users

markshust.com•66 days ago

It’s not sketchy if it’s better! I think almost everyone is running Apple silicon these days.

lukekarrys.com•67 days ago

there are much better cocktails for this time of year

bholmes.dev•66 days ago

Could honestly go for a whiskey sour after looking at cpp

maciekchmura.bsky.social•67 days ago

Tried it. Didn't work for me good enough. Ended up with whisper.

bholmes.dev•67 days ago

What issues did you hit? Accuracy? And what machine are you using?

maciekchmura.bsky.social•67 days ago

From my experience, Whisper is much better at figuring out the sentences. When it starts and when it ends.

Ended up using this:
https://github.com/kbumsik/opus-media-recorder

and sending 20 second files to Whisper.
Today I would try streaming 😀

bholmes.dev•67 days ago

Ack, unfortunately whisper doesn’t have built in streaming. You need to chunk and figure it out yourself… I have a funny use case where sentence breaks don’t matter so I’ll stick with this for now

phloe.co•67 days ago

Shall. We. Play. A. Game?

thebigbadme.bsky.social•67 days ago

tyvm for sharing

trafimovi.ch•66 days ago

It only works acceptably in Safari, in Chrome with some limitations, and no support in other Chromium-based browsers and Firefox. If you need streaming, you can try Deepgram.

danshappir.bsky.social•67 days ago

I built a web-app with support for speech commands 13 years ago 😁

torrentialtrace.bsky.social•67 days ago

Yeah built a hook & feature for that a while back for work that worked pretty decently. It has some issues discerning breaks of silence in sentences & it def struggles with technical terms but there’s ways to improve the options that it decides on

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