Call for Participation in Speech API Community Group

W3C has launched the Speech API Community Group

The goal and scope of this Community Group is to produce a JavaScript Speech API that supports the majority of use-cases in the the Speech Incubator Group's Final Report [1], but is a simplified subset API, such as this proposal [2]. For this initial specification, we believe that a simplified subset API will accelerate implementation, interoperability testing, standardization and ultimately developer adoption. This JavaScript Speech API will enable web developers to incorporate scripts into their web pages that can generate text-to-speech output and can use speech recognition as an input for forms, continuous dictation and control. Specification of HTML markup and a network speech protocol are out-of-scope of this Community Group.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/XGR-htmlspeech/
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/att-1696/speechapi.html

In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account.

This group was originally proposed on . The following people supported its creation: Glen Shires, Satish Kumar Sampath, Andrei Popescu, Bjorn Bringert, Charles Pritchard.

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Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team