On: Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?

[thesuperbigfrog]

Modern web browsers will support the Web Speech API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...) which may or may not involve a cloud service.

Here is the Google Chrome Web Speech API demo page: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

[detaro → thesuperbigfrog]

In which browser doesn't it involve a cloud service?

[thesuperbigfrog → detaro]

Use Firefox.

Google Chrome does use a cloud service.

Edit: Firefox does not support the Web Speech API at this time. There are not currently any offline versions of this API as far as I can tell.

[detaro → thesuperbigfrog]

According to MDN, Firefox doesn't support it?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

EDIT: According to other documentation, it is behind a config flag. If you enable it, it will send the data to Google's API through a Mozilla-operated proxy: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Web_Speech_API_-_Sp...

[thesuperbigfrog → detaro]

You're right.

It looks like there is no offline version :(