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Edit this webpage with your voice

Shown by jawns on Jun 19, 2015. Click the card to turn it over.

73points

19comments

#362of 2,565 in 2015

Top 15%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.

Execution: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against

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Speech recognition accuracy is poor
From 2 comments
- I've seen some neat projects using the speech API, including this one, but the recognition seems way too bad. Where does the recognition engine come from? Do the browser vendors…
  borplk on HN
- So after playing around with the page, I just started saying random things to see how the speech API would fare with my atrocious accent. That was interesting, until I said "the…
  scrollaway on HN
Voice editing is more tedious than dev tools
From 1 comment
- seems more tedious than open up dev tools. too much variation to be of general use, probably depends on certain markup like bootstrap. innovative idea though.
  x5n1 on HN
Only works in Chrome, not Safari or Firefox
From 2 comments
- I have no idea what is going on, am I suppose to just speak to the page? Because it does nothing (safari) EDIT: apparently visiting…
  baby on HN
- The Web Speech API in Chrome is implemented by calling Google Speech Recognition APIs. Firefox would have to pay for an API key to use the same service. There has been some work…
  TD-Linux on HN
Speech is sent to Google, a privacy concern
From 2 comments
- Yes - in particular, it's done server-side by Google. It seems that there is a config option to turn it off.…
  TD-Linux on HN
- No. The idea that your voice is being recorded and sent to Google is something that a lot of people might not want.
  userbinator on HN

Make it work as a browser extension
From 1 comment
- I envision this to be a great little browser extension for those pesky team / site presentations. Can you make that text yellow? Sure, tell it to do so and see how stupid it…
  sr_banksy on HN
Fix the first-child selection bug
From 1 comment
- Really cool! And it actually works! Seems like 'select its first child' doesn't select the first child, but the second.
  rolfvandekrol on HN

Why profanity is censored by the speech API
From 2 comments
- So after playing around with the page, I just started saying random things to see how the speech API would fare with my atrocious accent. That was interesting, until I said "the…
  scrollaway on HN
- That is unbelievably messed up. The fear of swear words in american culture actually messing with APIs. I really hope this isn't what it looks like and someone is playing a prank…
  scrollaway on HN
Where the recognition engine comes from
From 1 comment
- I've seen some neat projects using the speech API, including this one, but the recognition seems way too bad. Where does the recognition engine come from? Do the browser vendors…
  borplk on HN

Chrome speech demo from Google
From 1 comment
- I have no idea what is going on, am I suppose to just speak to the page? Because it does nothing (safari) EDIT: apparently visiting…
  baby on HN
pocketsphinx.js client-side recognition
From 1 comment
- The Web Speech API in Chrome is implemented by calling Google Speech Recognition APIs. Firefox would have to pay for an API key to use the same service. There has been some work…
  TD-Linux on HN
dhi.io AI page editing
From 1 comment
- This is quite interesting and is very close to what we are doing at http://www.dhi.io. Though the difference is that , there is actually an AI sitting in between the user and the…
  ganarajpr on HN