SpeechAPI

Introduction

This project is an extension of the GSoC Speech project. This project offers support to voice commands inside the firefox browser and has lead to an extension in SpeechRecognition API as well as text-to-speech API.

Initial contributors:

Roshan Vidyashankar and Anant Narayanan are the initial contributors to the Speech Project

Contributors for this extended SpeechAPI project are:

1. Rohan Dalvi
2. Harshank Vengurlekar
3. Jagannath Ramesh

Technical Stuff

nsSpeechRequest

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endpointer

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browser.js

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browser.xul

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Bugs solved:

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Tentative Schedule

• 28^th November - 4^th December - SpeechRequest + endpointer code compiled.
• 5^th December - 11^th December - Fixes to microphone handling on linux, some other small fixes, getting familiar with the code.
• 12^th December - 18^th December - continue some small fixes ( for example simplify thread handling ).
• 19^th December - 25^th December - Christmas etc, not much progress, but continue with fixing SpeechRequest API, adding possibly some new features.
• 26^th December - 1^st January - Holiday Season, not much progress, but continue with SpeechRequest Implementation.
• 2^nd January - 8^th January - Get TTS working.
• 9^th January - 15^th January - Enhancements to the TTS Implementation.
• 16^th January - 22^nd January - First speech commands: for example browser go back & go forward etc.
• 23^rd January - 29^th January - More speech commands, maybe read entire text

Demos & Examples

Patches/Updates