Speech Recognition And Getusermedia

I'm building a web application and plan on using both speechRecognition and navigator.getUserMedia for audio input. I noticed that my desktop browser (Chrome on Mac, v. 31.0.1650.6

Solution 1:

Have you considered other tools? There is an exciting new tool / product from Nuance (founded by Ray K, now head of Google Engineering) that translates voice data into actions using proprietary learning algorithms eg machine intelligence.

This tool understands context and can apply that to specific actions so the user doesn't have to use an exact phrase:

https://developer.nuance.com/public/index.php?task=mix

Tour: https://developer.nuance.com/views/templates/mix/howDoesMixWork/phone/index.html

The downside is that you are relying on a third party, but since the API you are looking at is also experimental this could be of interest.