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Re:Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability ... by zawerf on Friday August 31, 2018 @03:29AM (#17883623)
Anyone know how this relates to the Web Speech API[1]?

Will they ship it with chrome to replace the existing speech synthesis api? (I believe right now it just uses whatever voices are available to the device or OS but chrome can fallback to a serverside voice)

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

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynth...

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Re:Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability ... by singularity2001 on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:52AM (#17884237)
pure guess: Mozilla will use their DeepSpeech model for that soon
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