Web Speech API

Speech Recognition

This section allows you to capture speech from a microphone and transcribe it to text. In most cases this is client side but some browser send the recordings to a speech engine API. Click the start button to start recording. Microphone permissions will be requested. Not all browsers support this functionality. Web Speech API


Speech synthesis

Clicking the Read it to me button will perform text to speech in the browser completely client side. This is using the Web Speech API again. This system will attempt to break up text at appropriate pauses.