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<h1> Technical Stuff </h1><br /> | <h1> Technical Stuff </h1><br /> | ||
<h2> | <h2> Speech Input API </h2> | ||
The speech input API aims to provide an alternative input method for web applications, without using a keyboard or other physical device. This API can be used to input commands, fill input elements, give directions etc. It is based on SpeechRequest[[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Feb/att-0023/speechrequest.xml.html]] | The speech input API aims to provide an alternative input method for web applications, without using a keyboard or other physical device. This API can be used to input commands, fill input elements, give directions etc. It is based on SpeechRequest[[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Feb/att-0023/speechrequest.xml.html]] | ||
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*The developer should be able to start, stop, handle errors and multiple requests as required. | *The developer should be able to start, stop, handle errors and multiple requests as required. | ||
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== | == Text To Speech API == | ||
The text to speech API will be based on google's proposal([http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Feb/att-0022/htmltts-draft.html]).This API can be used for speech translation, turn by turn navigation, dialog systems etc. | The text to speech API will be based on google's proposal([http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Feb/att-0022/htmltts-draft.html]).This API can be used for speech translation, turn by turn navigation, dialog systems etc. | ||
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*What speech engines is yet to be decided. | *What speech engines is yet to be decided. | ||
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== | == Hacking Firefox UI == | ||
To practically implement speech-to-text and text-to-speech, it was imperative to hack the UI of development version of Mozilla Firefox(Nightly).We had to modify the files browser.xul, browser.css, browser.js for that.In order to ensure security and privacy issues, we modified these files and added two seperate buttons in the UI, one for initiating speech input from the user and the other to translate the selected text to speech.In this process we added functions in the javascript file (browser.js) to incorporate the functionality of those two buttons on the UI. | To practically implement speech-to-text and text-to-speech, it was imperative to hack the UI of development version of Mozilla Firefox(Nightly).We had to modify the files browser.xul, browser.css, browser.js for that.In order to ensure security and privacy issues, we modified these files and added two seperate buttons in the UI, one for initiating speech input from the user and the other to translate the selected text to speech.In this process we added functions in the javascript file (browser.js) to incorporate the functionality of those two buttons on the UI. | ||