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A comment on HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome).

Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by gilaniali on Sunday December 05, 2010 @07:35PM (#1973280)
How are they accessing my laptop mic? Is it the Google voice plugin?

Shouldn't the browser ask for permission before allowing access?

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Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by bemmu on Sunday December 05, 2010 @07:59PM (#1973341)
Because it's a Chrome feature? x-webkit-speech
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Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by varenc on Sunday December 05, 2010 @08:22PM (#1973397)
Its also a little concerning that google is sending this data to its own servers without warning. GOOG-411 at least warned you it was a collection tool.
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Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by gojomo on Sunday December 05, 2010 @08:19PM (#1973390)
They're considering clicking the microphone icon permission. (You did have to click the icon, didn't you?)
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Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by johnswamps on Sunday December 05, 2010 @08:30PM (#1973424)
Hm, I wonder if it's susceptible to clickjacking
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Re:HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome) by nkassis on Sunday December 05, 2010 @08:59PM (#1973512)
Good point.

This could be easily use for spying.

Next up wikileaks will use this when government IPs are discovered on the site ;p

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